The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things —… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all --… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
