Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Jascha Heifetz

Music is for the betterment and enrichment of the individual, just as education and reading are. When people come together to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken its longest stride forward since the beginning of time. Music is something to live with always, and children should be taught to regard it as a close and inalienable friend.

Beginning | Children | Civilization | Education | Friend | Individual | Music | People | Play | Reading | Regard | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Kurt Hahn, fully Kurt Martin "the rod" Hahn

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self-denial, and, above all, compassion.

Compassion | Curiosity | Education | Qualities | Regard | Self | Self-denial | Spirit | Survival | Tenacity | Wisdom |

John Hall

Culture is good, genius is brilliant, civilization is a blessing, education is a great privilege; but we may be educated villains. The thing that we want most of all is the precious gift of the Holy Ghost.

Civilization | Culture | Education | Genius | Good | Wisdom |

Seymour E. Harris

The time may be coming when we will have to start accepting the idea that education is life, not merely a preparation for it.

Education | Life | Life | Time | Will | Wisdom |

William Randolph Hearst

What has become of the descendants of the irresponsible adventurers, the scapegrace sons, the bond servants, the redemptionists and the indentured maidens, the undesirables, and even the criminals, which made up, not all, of course, but nevertheless a considerable part of, the earliest emigrants to these virgin countries? They have become the leaders of the thought of the world, the vanguard in the march of progress, the inspirers of liberty, the creators of national prosperity, the sponsors of universal education and enlightenment.

Education | Enlightenment | Liberty | Progress | Prosperity | Thought | Wisdom | World | Thought |

Edith Hamilton

But it is not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work. That is always boring in the long run, and it has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is ever laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is to be educated.

Education | Life | Life | Little | Pleasure | Thought | Wisdom | Work | World | Thought |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Education | Need | Wisdom |

Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey

The first quality of a good education is good manners - and some people flunk the course.

Education | Good | Manners | People | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he is born.

Education | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Education | Learning | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Education | Knowledge | Truth | Wisdom |

Anna Jameson

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the god who made us has endowed us.

Education | God | Immortality | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom | God |

Arnold Allan Lazarus and Alan Fay

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

Education | Growth | Wisdom |

Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Destiny | Education | Future | Security | Wisdom | Instruction |

J. Martin Klotsche

We cannot consider the people truly educated if they think of education only as the gathering of facts, data and information. The intelligent person is one who has learned how to choose wisely and therefore has a sense of values, a purpose in life and a sense of direction.

Education | Life | Life | People | Purpose | Purpose | Sense | Wisdom | Think |

Henry T. Maschal

If you are to find rewarding satisfaction in your work, if your life is to be rich and purposeful and crowned with high achievement, it is important you continue to be a growing person. Education is a continuing process. It does not end with the termination of your schooling. Education continues from the beginning of life to the end of life, and balanced growth throughout one's entire life is important for every individual.

Achievement | Beginning | Education | Growth | Important | Individual | Life | Life | Wisdom | Work |

John Locke

Education begins the gentleman, but reading good company, and education must finish him.

Education | Good | Reading | Wisdom |