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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John Dewey

The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think.

Education | Teach | Wisdom | Child |

John Dewey

Education is a social process... Education is growth... Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education | Growth | Life | Life | Wisdom |

John Cudahy, fully John Clarence Cudahy

If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind.

Education | Illusion | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Possessions | Search | Security | Will | Wisdom |

Isaac D'Israeli

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Age | Education | Ends | Genius | Indispensable | Nothing | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problem.

Education | Life | Life | Service | Thinking | Training | Wisdom |

Robert Eliot

The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.

Education | Fear | Improvement | Wisdom |

Tyron Edwards

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying, as if vainly attempting to overtake time that has been lost.

Leisure | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Charles W. Eliot

The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.

Education | Fear | Improvement | Wisdom |

William Feather

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Education | Knowing | Memory | Need | Wisdom |

Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Capacity | Learning | Wisdom |

Francisco Ferrer y Guardia

All the value of education rests in the respect for the physical, intellectual and moral will of the child.

Education | Respect | Will | Wisdom | Respect | Value |

Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure is time for doing something useful, and this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never, for a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.

Art | Laziness | Leisure | Life | Life | Man | Time | Will | Wisdom | Art |

Gerald B. Fitzgerald

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Leisure | Recreation | Wisdom |

Owen Feltham

He who always waits upon God, is ready whensoever he calls. He is a happy man who so lives that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Death | God | Happy | Leisure | Man | Wisdom |

Abraham Flexner

Getting education is like getting measles; you have to go where the measles is.

Education | Wisdom |

Ted W. Engstrom

We must expect to fail, but fail in a learning posture, determined not to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Learning | Wisdom |