Nature has always had more force than education.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from read more

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.