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- Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
- Albert Edward Wiggam
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
- Lillian Smith
- What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
- Carl Rogers
- Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
- Alice Duer Miller
- Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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