Quotations About / On: EDUCATION

  • 31.
    Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
    (Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Pensées de Gustave Flaubert, p. 70, Conard (1915).)
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  • 32.
    Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. repr. In Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8 (1976). Die Fackel (Vienna, November 7, 1912).)
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  • 33.
    Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
    (Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Idea 57 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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  • 34.
    Obedience ... is the primary object of all sound education.
    (Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906), British author. Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes, ch. 6 (1866).)
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  • 35.
    I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
    (George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist. "Such, Such Were the Joys ... ," Part 1 (1947).)
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  • 36.
    Education is not so important as people think.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Irish author; born in Ireland. Bowen's Court, ch. 5 (1942).)
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  • 37.
    Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
    (Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933), Hungarian novelist, critic. repr. In Truth and Lies in Literature (1986). "Europe's Inner Demons," (London, March 2, 1975). Review of Norman Cohn's An Inquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt in Sunday Telegraph.)
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  • 38.
    Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
    (Marian Wright Edelman (20th century), U.S. author. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Child and Yours, I, p. 10 (1992).)
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  • 39.
    Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
    (H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946), British author. The Outline of History, vol. 2, ch. 41 (1920).)
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  • 40.
    The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
    (John Dewey (1859-1952), U.S. philosopher and educator. Experience and Education, ch. 2 (1938).)
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