The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. — Russell Green Copy Share Image
“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.” — Melissa Wiley Copy Share Image
“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical… — Hans Gruber Copy Share Image
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Nowadays it seems you learn only what is reasonable and relevant. I went to Rome with a young friend, educated on the… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Dave would marvel, “Do people not realize that they are living in the greater Renaissance? Could you imagine how much Isaac Newton… — David Flynn Copy Share Image
“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. — Russell Green Copy Share Image
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“For the immense extension of the scale of education and its ramification into a hundred specialisms and technical disciplines has left the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“It is so true, that the Socialists look upon mankind as a subject for social experiments, that if, by chance, they are… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“The obvious difficulty that has prevented the study of European culture becoming a part of the regular curriculum of studies is its… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
