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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Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
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.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
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.
