This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Grow! Man is never finished. Man never arrives. Education never stops.
Thomas Henry Huxley, aka T.H. Huxley and Darwin's Bulldog
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that they learn thoroughly.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Alfred "Trader Horn" Aloysius, born Alfred Aloysius Smith
The first thing education teaches you is to walk alone.
César Chávez, fully César Estrada Chávez
A word as to the education of the heart: We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry... Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when widespread, produce social disaster.
Belief | Care | Difficulty | Dogma | Education | Good | Industry | Knowledge | Skepticism | Time | Skeptic |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
One generation of fearless women could transform the world, by bringing into it a generation of fearless children, not contorted into unnatural shapes, but straight and candid, generous, affectionate, and free. Their ardor would sweep away the cruelty and pain which we endure because we are lazy, cowardly, hard-hearted and stupid. It is education that gives us these bad qualities, and education that must give us the opposite virtues. Education is the key to the new world.
Children | Cruelty | Education | Pain | Qualities | World | Cruelty |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Education as a political weapon could not exist if we respected the rights of children. If we respected the rights of children, we should educate them so as to give them the knowledge and the mental habits required for forming independent opinions; but education as a political institution endeavors to form habits and to circumscribe knowledge in such a way as to make one set of opinions inevitable.
Children | Education | Inevitable | Knowledge | Rights |
E. D. Hirsch, Jr., fully Eric Donalid Hirsch, Jr.
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
Doris Lessing, fully Doris May Lessing, born Doris May Tayler
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education; to accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun; to accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Eleanor Roosevelt, fully Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
We're basically an illiterate society sexually. We're not well educated. We're not much better educated than our parents, and even though sex is merchandised and exploited, there is very little sexuality education available in American schools. It is almost as though we had to repay our guilt for exploiting sex so explicitly in our society by preserving a shroud of ignorance.
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.