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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
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.
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."
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
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A good teacher is a determined person.
A good teacher is a determined person.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
