All Quotes By Tag: Education
“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
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“The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a “new creation”, capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.”
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“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
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“I don’t want to believe. I want to know.”
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“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
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“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
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“It’s not in the will to prove an idea to be true but in the utmost desire to disprove it, that the absolute truth emerges.”
“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
“Before the academy, Miri never had cause to wonder if a person was head smart or not. It seemed everyone was clever at something – there were those who were best at picking out the right fissure for prying a block of linder free and those who were best at making cheese or tanning hides, beating drums or tossing stones. Now, smart meant to Miri the talent to think around a new problem and learn new things.”
“Send your child to school for education, not for attendance”
“There is no knowledge like kindness.”
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“To know – that’s true happiness.”
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“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.”
“Talk a little less, listen a little more, and you’ll be a lot wiser”