铅笔的英语西方名人谈教育

2021年1月20日发(作者：tint)
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt
for education no man's education is complete.
~G
.K. Chesterton

The
aim
of
education
should
be
to
teach
us
rather
how
to
think,
than
what
to
think
-
rather
to
improve
our
minds,
so
as
to
enable
us
to
think
for
ourselves,
than
to
load
the
memory
with
thoughts of other men.
~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris

Education
is
what
remains
after
one
has
forgotten
what
one
has
learned
in
school.
~Albert
Einstein

The
school
is
the
last
expenditure
upon
which
America
should
be
willing
to
economize.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake
sale to buy bombers.
~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but
doesn't teach them how to make a life.
~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek
Bok

It
is
a
thousand
times
better
to
have
common
sense
without
education
than
to
have
education
without common sense.
~Robert G
. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for
education.
Probably,
no
nation
is
rich
enough
to
pay
for
both
war
and
civilization.
We
must
make our choice; we cannot have both.
~Abraham Flexner

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~Edward Everett

Real
education
must
ultimately
be
limited
to
men
who
insist
on
knowing,
the
rest
is
mere
sheep- herding.
~Ezra Pound

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
~Martin H. Fischer

The
object
of
education
is
to
prepare
the
young
to
educate
themselves
throughout
their
lives.
~Robert Maynard Hutchins

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
What you gain at one end you lose at
the other.
It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
~Mark Twain

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~Robert
Maynard Hutchins

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~Will Durant

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education
of all adults of every age?
~Erich Fromm

Education aims to give
you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.
Too often, it just gives
you a
cramp on one of its rungs.
~Martin H. Fischer

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.
~William Haley

I
read
Shakespeare
and
the
Bible,
and
I
can
shoot
dice.
That's
what
I
call
a
liberal
education.
~Tallulah Bankhead

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~George Santayana


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm S. Forbes

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best
incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
~R. Baker

What
does
education
often
do?
It
makes
a
straight-cut
ditch
of
a
free,
meandering
brook.
~Henry David Thoreau

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth
knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde,

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use?
It's nice to be
number one, but we can fix that.
All we need to do is start the war on education.
If it's anywhere
near
as
successful
as
our
war
on
drugs,
in no
time
we'll
all
be
hooked
on
phonics.
~Leighann
Lord

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
To Miss Mackay it is
a
putting
in
of
something
that
is
not
there,
and
that
is
not
what
I
call
education.
I
call
it
intrusion.
~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

If
I
had
learned
education
I
would
not
have
had
time
to
learn
anything
else.
~Cornelius
Vanderbilt

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~Aristotle

Education
is
simply
the
soul
of
a
society
as
it
passes
from
one
generation
to
another.
~G
.K.
Chesterton

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you
only make so many asses laden with books.
~Michel de Montaigne

Education
is
the
ability
to
listen
to
almost
anything
without
losing
your
temper
or
your
self- confidence.
~Robert Frost

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
~Abbé
Dimnet,
Art of Thinking, 1928

Learning, n.
The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's
Dictionary

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize
how little they know.
~William R. Inge

It
is
the
mark
of
an
educated
mind
to
be
able
to
entertain
a
thought
without
accepting
it.
~Aristotle

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
~Mark Twain

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
~Peter Drucker

If
a
man
is
a
fool,
you
don't
train
him
out
of
being
a
fool
by
sending
him
to
university.
You
merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
~Desmond Bagley

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
~Allan Bloom

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut
flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
~John W. Gardner

There
is
nothing
so
stupid
as
the
educated
man
if
you
get
him
off
the
thing
he
was
educated