Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to t...heir own devices, not to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new--but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; i...t is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the cons...titution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything... Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it is best then that the buried word remain buried for we were intended to appreciate only its fruits and not the secret principle... activating them to know this would be to know too much. Meanwhile it is possible to know just enough, and this is all we were supposed to know, toward which we have been straining all our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For later in the vast gloom of cities, only there you learn How the ideas were good only because they had to die,... Leaving you alone and skinless, a drawing by Vesalius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used t...o think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of a British man's constitution. His thoughts and beauties ar...e so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.--No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays, without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am pleased that you have learned to love a hyacinth. The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of dis...position in a young lady is a great blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »