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  • Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Educational Quotes , Past Quotes
  • There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes , Educational Quotes
  • Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Educational Quotes , Clothes Quotes
  • Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Educational Quotes
  • ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Educational Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Educational Quotes , Two Quotes
  • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Educational Quotes , People Quotes