Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Quotes
All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCGive us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852