This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Hugh Walpole, fully Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
A mother once asked a clergyman when she should begin the education of her child which she told him was then four years old. “madam,” was the reply, “you have lose three years already. From the very first smile that gleams over the infant’s cheek, your opportunity begins.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter L. Berger, fully Peter Ludwig Berger
The consciousness of abiding safety in the bosom of the Church is one of the most serious obstacles to an honest confrontation with the Christian faith.
Church | Consciousness | Faith |
Alfred Zimmern, fully Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern
All true educators since the time of Socrates and Plato have agreed that the primary objective of education is the attainment of inner harmony, or, to put it into more up-to-date language, the integration of the personality. Without such an integration learning is no more than a collection of scraps, and the accumulation of knowledge becomes a danger to mental health.
Attainment | Danger | Education | Harmony | Health | Integration | Knowledge | Language | Learning | Personality | Time | Wisdom | Danger |
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and education for making a living.
Education | Objectives | Wisdom |
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get alone without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get alone without the use of his intelligence.
Education | Intelligence | Man | Wisdom |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I say there can be no safety for these States without innovators - without free tongues, and ears willing to hear the tongues.
Wisdom |
César Chávez, fully César Estrada Chávez
The end of all education should surely be service to others. We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about the progress and prosperity of our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others for their sake and for our own.
Achievement | Education | Enough | Progress | Prosperity | Service |
The best and the deepest moral training is that which one gets by having to enter into proper relationships with others… Present educational systems, so far as they destroy or neglect this unity, render it difficult or impossible to get any genuine, regular moral training.
At the bottom, people tend to believe that class is defined by the amount of money you have. In the middle, people grant that money has something to do with it, but think education and the kind of work you do almost equally important. Nearer the top, people perceive that taste, values, ideas, style, and behavior are indispensable criteria of class, regardless of money or occupation or education.
Behavior | Education | Ideas | Important | Indispensable | Money | Occupation | People | Style | Taste | Work | Think |
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Moral ambiguity creates mental cramps of various sorts, which lead to reflection, discussion, and argument… Morality resists theoretical unification under either a set of special-purpose rules or single general-purpose rule or principle, such as the categorical imperative or the principle of unity. If this is right, and if it is right because the ends of moral life are plural and heterogeneous in kind and because our practices of moral education rightly reflect this, then we have some greater purchase on why the project of finding a single theoretically satisfying moral theory has failed.
Ambiguity | Argument | Discussion | Education | Ends | Life | Life | Morality | Purpose | Purpose | Reflection | Right | Rule | Unity | Theoretical |
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.