Education

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens

John Stuart Mill

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

 The King, Wisconsin Veterans Home of Waupaca, WI

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that

the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Aristotle

 

Esther Island

 

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Frederick Douglass

 

 

 

 

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Frederick Douglass

 

 

Sunrise Over Rainbow Lake on The Chain O' Lakes

There is more done with pens than with swords.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

The Covered Bridge at the Red-mill

H. G. Wells

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens

John Stuart Mill

 

 

The Red Mill on County Highway K in Waupaca, WI

 

Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'

Thomas Sowell

 www.tsowell.com

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

 Emmons Creek

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.
Milton Friedman

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
Henry Ford

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
By Thomas A. Edison

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.