Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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 the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

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.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.