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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Albert Cooper, fully Albert Glen Cooper

Neither piety, nor liberty can long flourish in a community where the education of youth is neglected.

Education | Liberty | Piety | Wisdom | Youth | Youth |

John Dewey

I believe that... education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living... all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race... Every thinker puts one portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Consciousness | Education | Future | Individual | Peril | Race | Wisdom | World |

William H. Cowley

People sometimes refer to higher education as the higher learning, but colleges and universities are much more than the knowledge factories; they are testaments to man's perennial struggle to make a better world for himself, his children, and his children's children. This, indeed, is their sovereign purpose. They are great fortifications against ignorance and irrationality; but they are more than places of higher learning - they are centers and symbols of man's higher yearning.

Better | Children | Education | Ignorance | Knowledge | Learning | Man | People | Purpose | Purpose | Struggle | Wisdom | World |

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 |

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 |

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 |

Abraham Flexner

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

Education | Wisdom |

William P. Faunce

We have in America the largest public school system on earth, the most expensive college buildings, the most extensive curriculum, but nowhere else is education so blind to its objectives, so indifferent to any specific outcome as in America. One trouble has been at the repression of faults rather than creation of virtues.

Earth | Education | Objectives | Public | System | Wisdom | Trouble |

David Gardner, fully David Pierpont Gardner

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Education | Wisdom | Learn |

Virginia Gildersleeve, fully Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Ability | Education | Future | Knowledge | Past | Service | Skill | Vision | Wisdom | Think |

Arnold Henry Glasgow

One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world.

Education | Wisdom | World |