Benjamin Franklin on education
“The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
John DeweyJohn Dewey The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
John DeweyJohn Dewey