Random Quotes
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.Horace Mann
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.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.Nikita Khrushchev
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.Henry David Thoreau
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.Albert E. Wiggam