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.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is read more
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
