If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.