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?

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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 commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.