Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.