Education
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is to be educated.
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious.
An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections – to exercise our imaginations. It follows, then, that the basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.
Education strays from reality when it divides its knowledge into separate compartments without due regard to the connection between them.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
The educational system is regarded simultaneously as the nation’s scapegoat and savior.
Those who have been required to memorize the world as it is will never create the world as it might be.
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can’t afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.
The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.
I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any given time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
