The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical read more

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

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

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.