Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-12-13 Dec 13, 2007Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.~ Herman HesseIt is not white hair that engenders wisdom.~ MenanderThere is no wisdom without knowledge.~ Tom Braun Dec 12, 2007To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore RooseveltWithout doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.~ Lord Herbert Louis SamuelIt is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford Dec 11, 2007To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.~ John RuskinIf we are to reach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiWe developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.~ Ronald Reagan 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print