“Education is an opportunity, nothing more. It will not guarantee success, or happiness, or contentment, or riches. Everything depends upon what development is produced by it and what use is made of it. It does not mean morality or usefulness.… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“It is not what is read or what is remembered, but only what is understood, that gives power,” — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“If little labor, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.” — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“Education is an opportunity, nothing more. It will not guarantee success, or happiness, or contentment, or riches. Everything depends upon what development is produced… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“In this quest of knowledge ... there are two faults to be shunned—one, the taking of unknown things for known, and giving an assent… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“For the end of education and training is to help nature to her perfection in the complete development of all the various powers."—Richard Mulcaster,… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
