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.

Thomas Sowell
 
 
 
 
 

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

 

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

Thomas Sowell
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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
 

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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.

 
 
 
 

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

Frederick Douglass
 
 
 

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
 
 
 
 
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
 
 
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There is more done with pens than with swords.

 

 

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
 

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell
 
 

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.

 

 
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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
 
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

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.

 
 
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
 
 

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

 
 
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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.

William McKinley

 

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

Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt
 

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt
 

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

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.

Aristotle

 

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

Aristotle
 
 

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

Aristotle
 

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

 

 

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

Euripides
 
 
 

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Plato
 

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

William McKinley

 

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Edmund Burke
 
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett
 

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

Daniel Webster

 

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

Albert Einstein

 

 

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

Albert Einstein
 

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

 

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.

Nelson Mandela

 

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

Plato
 

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Plato
 

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck