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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. (Aiken Howard)
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. (Aiken Howard)
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. (Aiken Howard)
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. (Aiken Howard)
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. (Aiken Howard)
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. (Aiken Howard)
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. (Aiken Howard)
Education is the art of making man ethical. (Aiken Howard)
Much learning does not teach understanding. (Aiken Howard)
Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you! (Aiken Howard)
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. (Aiken Howard)
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. (Aiken Howard)
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. (Aiken Howard)
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. (Aiken Howard)
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think. (Aiken Howard)
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. (Aiken Howard)
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. (Aiken Howard)
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Aiken Howard)
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. (Aiken Howard)
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. (Aiken Howard)
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. (Aiken Howard)
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