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Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

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.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.