
"Of Choice in Reading", The Enquirer (1797)
Pieces of Eight (1982)
Context: The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.
"Of Choice in Reading", The Enquirer (1797)
“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”
“If you train the part of the body you get that part trained”
The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)
“Education is training in wisdom and virtue, and the exercise of these is freedom.”
Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 219
Source: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 29
“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”
Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856)
No one has said that about a great teacher. That's not what people remember about the great teachers they've had.
2000s, Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger (May 21, 2009)