If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.
No opposing quotes found.