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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. (Aiken Howard)
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Aiken Howard)
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. (Aiken Howard)
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. (Aiken Howard)
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. (Aiken Howard)
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. (Aiken Howard)
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. (Aiken Howard)
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. (Aiken Howard)
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. (Aiken Howard)
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. (Aiken Howard)
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men. (Aiken Howard)
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all (Aiken Howard)
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. (Aiken Howard)
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. (Aiken Howard)
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. (Aiken Howard)
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. (Aiken Howard)
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. (Aiken Howard)
It is only the ignorant who despise education. (Aiken Howard)
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? (Aiken Howard)
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. (Aiken Howard)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Aiken Howard)
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