“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
Source: Getting Well https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0787307785 (Health Research Books, 1993), p. 137.
General Nature of New Eduction p. 38
Addresses to the German Nation (Reden an die deutsche Nation) 1808, Third Address
“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
Source: Getting Well https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0787307785 (Health Research Books, 1993), p. 137.
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law.”
1963, Address at Vanderbilt University
Context: Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society — but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.
“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”
Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
Source: 1970s, "Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems," 1976, p. 17
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Variant: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
“In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 233