A good teacher is a determined person.

A good teacher is a determined person.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any read more

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.