Education

"Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue." Aldous Huxley

"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life." Charles Scribner

"A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation." Thomas Sowell

"Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed." Andrea Bocelli

"The only difference between ‘propaganda’ and ‘education,’ really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don’t believe in is propaganda." Edward Bernays

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." Henry Ford

"Not knowing is no shame — but refusing to learn is." Sokrates

"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated." Walter Lippmann

"Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were." Molière

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." George Carlin

"What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life." John Dewey

"I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform." John Dewey

"The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons"." John Dewey

"Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged." Rupert Sheldrake