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Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness.
Beyond the logic concerned with things, education must provide the possibility of awakening and cultivating moral aesthetic intuitions. It is the neglect of these higher values that has reduced life to a mere struggle for existence and to the detriment of social and human values in economic and political life.
Aesthetic | Awakening | Education | Existence | Life | Life | Logic | Neglect | Struggle |
It is by education I learn to do by choice, what others men do by the constraint of fear.
It is by education I learn to do by choice, what other men do by the constraint of fear.
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
The poorest education that teaches self-control, is better than the best that neglects it.
Better | Control | Education | Self | Self-control |
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Lifelong part-time education is the surest way of raising the intellectual and moral level of the masses.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
If unlimited private indulgence means that there are not enough resources left for national defense or for education or medical care or decent housing or intelligent community planning, then in a sane society private indulgence can no longer be unlimited.
Care | Defense | Education | Enough | Indulgence | Means | Society | Society |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves a great result. The wish to preserve the past rather than to hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Almost all education has a political motive: It aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is the motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.
Aims | Competition | Education | Growth | Knowledge | Life | Life | Mind | Spirit |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The more purely intellectual aim of education should be the endeavor to make us see and imagine the world in an objective manner as far as possible as it really is in itself, and not merely through the distorting medium of personal desires.