The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

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.