For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.