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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Educational 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Educational Quotes , Two Quotes
  • And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Children Quotes , Educational Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Educational Quotes , Past Quotes
  • All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Religious Quotes , Educational Quotes
  • The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Educational Quotes