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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Morality
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
- Knowledge
- Virtue
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter’d by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 94
- Knowledge
The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
John Locke1632–1704An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 16, sec. 4
- Knowledge
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Table-Talk (1857)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Knowledge
- Thinking
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Thinking
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Knowledge
A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to W.T. Barry (4 August 1822), in The Writings of James Madison (1910) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 9, p. 103
- Government
- Knowledge
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1
- Knowledge
- Power
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann1796–185912th Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education (1848); published in Life and Works of Horace Mann Vol. III, (1868) edited by Mary Mann, p. 669
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann1796–1859Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 220
- Politics