Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-12-10 Dec 10, 2007The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.~ Bertrand RussellWhat is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.~ Robert M. Hutchins Dec 7, 2007A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.~ George Bernard ShawLiberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.~ John F. KennedySay not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.~ The Mishnah Dec 6, 2007Only the educated are free.~ EpictetusUpon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.~ Benjamin DisraeliWhen I say liberty…I mean liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts and live his own life as he desires to think and live; the liberty of the family to decide how they wish to live, what they wanted to eat for breakfast and for dinner, and how they wish to spend their time; liberty of a man to develop his ideas and get other people to teach those ideas, if he can convince them that they have some value to the world…~ Robert A. Taft Dec 5, 2007Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.~ Kingman BrewsterThe intellectually stifling results of censorship -- while deplorable in any setting -- would be all the more abominable if allowed to exist within the college environment.~ William M. Anderson, Jr.Academic freedom means the right, long accepted in the academic world, to study, discuss, and write about facts and ideas without restrictions, other than those imposed by conscience and morality.~ Yale University Dec 4, 2007Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.~ Oscar WildeA 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.~ Franklin D. RooseveltI believe [that William Graham Sumner] was one of the greatest professors we ever had at Yale, but I have drawn far away from his point of view, that of the old laissez faire doctrine. I remember he said in his classroom: 'Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.' That amused his class very much, for he was as far from a revolutionary as you could expect. But I would like to say that if that time comes when there are two great parties, Anarchists and Socialists, then I am a Socialist.~ Irving Fisher Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print