Quotes About Education

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

I found that with one hundred and fifty well- chosen books, a man possesses a complete summary of all human knowledge, or at least all that a man need really know.

Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But

Leren is nog geen weten. Er zijn weters en er zijn geleerden. Het geheugen maakt de eerste soort, de wijsheid de tweede.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But cannot one learn philosophy?

Aprender no es saber: de aquí nacen los eruditos y los sabios: la memoria hace a los unos, y la filosofía a los otros.

Apprendere non vuol dire sapere; vi sono i sapienti e i savi. È la memoria che fa gli uni, è la filosofia che fa gli altri».

S? înveÅ£i nu înseamn? s? ÅŸtii. Exist? oameni care ÅŸtiu ÅŸi oameni care cunosc. Unii sunt ajutaÅ£i de memorie, ceilalÅ£i de filosofie. - Dar filosofia nu se poate înv??a? -Filosofia nu se înva??. Filosofia e suma tuturor ÅŸtiinÅ£elor pe care un geniu le pune in aplicare.

I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess. Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.

catalogue des livres que nous lûmes pour arriver à ce but remplirait un feuilleton tout entier, ce qui serait peut-être fort instructif, mais à coups sûr peu amusant pour nos lecteurs. Nous nous contenterons donc

Mais, pour lire les auteurs étrangers, je ne sais ni le grec, ni l'anglais, ni l'allemand.   - Parbleu  ! la belle affaire, vous apprendrez ces langues-là.   - Comment  ?   - Je n'en sais rien. Mais retenez ceci : on apprend toujours ce que l'on veut apprendre ;

A înv??a nu înseamn? a È™ti. Exist? È™tiutori È™i exist? savanÈ›i: pe unii îi face memoria, pe alÈ›ii filozofia.

Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;

The American learns about the law by participating in the making of it. He teaches himself about the forms of government by governing. He watches the great work of society being done every day before his eyes and, in a sense, by his hand. In the United States, all of education is directed toward politics. In Europe, its principal purpose is to prepare people for private life. Citizens take part in public affairs too seldom to prepare them for it in advance.

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it.

I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.

In no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.