Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-02-23 Feb 23, 2015Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.~ Robert M. HutchinsWhenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.~ Thomas SowellThe capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.~ Unknown Feb 19, 2015I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.~ Mark TwainThose who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.~ Nat HentoffA university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.~ Richard Hofstadter Feb 18, 2015One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.~ Will RogersEducation is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.~ Lillian SmithAnd as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.~ Marianne Williamson Feb 17, 2015They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. ~ Dwight D. EisenhowerWe have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.~ Robert HughesIt is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print