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Quotes about education
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. (Autry Alan)
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. (Autry Alan)
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. (Autry Alan)
Most owners of small businesses openly state that they believe in the value of skills and operational training. However, they also admit that they themselves undertake very little training, or offer only limited training to their employees, because of time restraints. (Autry Alan)
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. (Autry Alan)
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. (Autry Alan)
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. (Autry Alan)
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. (Autry Alan)
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. (Autry Alan)
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. (Autry Alan)
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. (Autry Alan)
Education is the art of making man ethical. (Autry Alan)
Much learning does not teach understanding. (Autry Alan)
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! (Autry Alan)
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. (Autry Alan)
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. (Autry Alan)
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. (Autry Alan)
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. (Autry Alan)
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think. (Autry Alan)
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. (Autry Alan)
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. (Autry Alan)
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Autry Alan)
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. (Autry Alan)
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. (Autry Alan)
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. (Autry Alan)
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