By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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 with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical read more

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.