Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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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
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy read more
There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be read more
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
