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Quotes about education
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. (Autry Alan)
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. (Autry Alan)
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. (Autry Alan)
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. (Autry Alan)
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. (Autry Alan)
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Autry Alan)
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. (Autry Alan)
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. (Autry Alan)
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. (Autry Alan)
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. (Autry Alan)
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. (Autry Alan)
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. (Autry Alan)
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. (Autry Alan)
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. (Autry Alan)
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men. (Autry Alan)
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all (Autry Alan)
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. (Autry Alan)
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. (Autry Alan)
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. (Autry Alan)
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. (Autry Alan)
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. (Autry Alan)
It is only the ignorant who despise education. (Autry Alan)
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? (Autry Alan)
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. (Autry Alan)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Autry Alan)
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