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Letter "E" » Education
«Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.»
«Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines»
«Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave»
«Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Education,
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
Establishing, lasting
«Every educated person is a future enemy»
«Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it»
Author: William Haley
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
desire to know, ensure, ensures, ensuring, imbue, imbued
«Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
Determination,
Education,
Persistence
| Keywords:
omnipotent, press, press on, race problem, slogan, slogans, solved
«Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Education,
Injustice,
Judgement,
Morality
| Keywords:
minimalist
«Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Education,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
brutes, with wisdom
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
| Keywords:
accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
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