I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
They all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man’s lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much.
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
The great enemy of is the world, not exactly in the theological sense, yet in one not wholly different – the world as the hater of truth and lover of appearance, occupied in the pursuit of gain and pleasure rather than of knowledge, banded together against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education.
For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up.
Education is the best provision for old age.
