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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling
My education was interrupted only by my schooling
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
