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More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from read more
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. read more
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.