I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.