Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
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