“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 at the top of the edifice." The only way that power and strength can be developed is by effort on the part of the student. The only real education is self-education. The best that the teacher… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share
“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 to them too hastily, which fault he who wishes to escape (and all ought so to wish) will give time and diligence to reflect on the subjects proposed for his consideration. The other fault is that… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share
“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
