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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure read more
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.
