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Quotes about education
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The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. (Autry Alan)
The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. (Autry Alan)
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. (Autry Alan)
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. (Autry Alan)
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. (Autry Alan)
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum. (Autry Alan)
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. (Autry Alan)
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. (Autry Alan)
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. (Autry Alan)
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. (Autry Alan)
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. (Autry Alan)
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. (Autry Alan)
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. (Autry Alan)
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. (Autry Alan)
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. (Autry Alan)
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. (Autry Alan)
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Autry Alan)
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind. (Autry Alan)
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. (Autry Alan)
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. (Autry Alan)
Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt. (Autry Alan)
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. (Autry Alan)
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. (Autry Alan)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Autry Alan)
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. (Autry Alan)
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