This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
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 |
Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Blessings | Capitalism | Vice |
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 |
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 |
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.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The school system can’t make up for family failure. The total education of our children is a cooperative effort requiring community solidarity. Apathetic parents who foster a permissive home atmosphere create a problem for everyone.
Children | Education | Effort | Failure | Family | Parents | System |
As nearly as I can see, all the new isms – Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and especially the late but not lamented Technocracy – outdo even Capitalism itself in their preoccupation with one thing: The distribution of more machine-made commodities to more people. They all proceed on the theory that if we can all keep warm and full, and all own a Ford and a radio, the good life will follow. Their programs differ only in ways to mobilize machines to this end. Though they despise each other, they are all, respect of this objective, as identically alike as peas in a pod. They are competitive apostles of a single creed: salvation by machinery.
Capitalism | Creed | Despise | Good | Life | Life | Machines | People | Respect | Salvation | Will | Respect |
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
Education | Human race | Individual | Race | Revelation |
Iskander Mirza, fully Major-General Sahibzada Sayyid Iskander Ali Mirza
Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation.