The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

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.

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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.