I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

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

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. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

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

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

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.