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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be read more
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
