Nations
have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed
largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both
war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Author: Abraham Flexner
The aim of education should be
to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve
our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory
with thoughts of other men.
Author: Bill Beattie
Much education today is monumentally
ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we
should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Author: John W. Gardner
No man who worships education
has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education
no man's education is complete.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Nothing is more terrible than
to see ignorance in action.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One attraction of Latin is that
you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting
over how to say, "Have a nice day."
Author: Peter Brodie
Real education must ultimately
be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Author: Ezra Pound
Seek ye diligently and teach
one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of
wisdom; seek learning, even by study, and alos by faith.
Author: Doctrine & Covenants
Study and learn, and become acquainted with all good books, and with languages,
tongues, and people.
Author: Doctrine & Covenants
The ability to ask questions
is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
Author: Anonymous
To me education is a leading
out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a
putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education.
I call it intrusion.
Author: Muriel Spark
To the uneducated, an A is just
three sticks.
Author: A. A. Milne
Too often we give children answers
to remember rather than problems to solve.
Author: Roger Lewin
Truth is knowledge of things
as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come.
Doctrine & Covenants
93:24
Author: Doctrine & Covenants
We are students of words: we
are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen
years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do
not know a thing.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to add to the three R's,
namely Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--Responsibility.
Author: Herbert Hoover
What does education often do?
It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
What greater or better gift can
we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Author: Cicero
Whatever principle of inteligence
we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.
D&C 130:18
Author: Doctrine & Covenants
When a subject becomes totally
obsolete we make it a required course.
Author: Peter Drucker
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