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If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
Sep 29, 2025
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken for this philosophy education should fix itself. There should be several different things taught instead of one "Supreme Factor".
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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