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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

 

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Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

 

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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

 

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

 

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

 

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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

 

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Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

 

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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

 

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Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward

 

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

 

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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker -- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.

 

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

 

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.



Thucydides:

 

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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

 

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Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:

 

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These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

 

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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

 

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To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

 

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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

 

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Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.