education
“The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.”
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist.”
“Precept is not so much the teacher of the young as example.”
“While we teach, we learn.”
“Habit is stronger than nature.”
“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
“The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things.”
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
“If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment, and wonder at that which is different from oneself.”
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”