By education most have been misled.

By education most have been misled.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. read more

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.