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The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. (Aiken Howard)
The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. (Aiken Howard)
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. (Aiken Howard)
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. (Aiken Howard)
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. (Aiken Howard)
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum. (Aiken Howard)
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. (Aiken Howard)
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. (Aiken Howard)
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. (Aiken Howard)
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. (Aiken Howard)
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. (Aiken Howard)
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue. (Aiken Howard)
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. (Aiken Howard)
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. (Aiken Howard)
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. (Aiken Howard)
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. (Aiken Howard)
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Aiken Howard)
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind. (Aiken Howard)
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. (Aiken Howard)
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. (Aiken Howard)
Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt. (Aiken Howard)
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. (Aiken Howard)
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. (Aiken Howard)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Aiken Howard)
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. (Aiken Howard)
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