It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.