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.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is read more

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

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.

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.