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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Burke, Edmund - Tolerance)

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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.
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.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?