“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
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“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well”
“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age ”
“If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation”
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them”
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife”
“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't ”
“Only the educated are free”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense ”
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't”
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living”
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly”