Oliver DeMille Quotes
- Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of…
- Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or…
- The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
- Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not…
- Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
- The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading,…
- The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another
- The only person who can fix education is the student.
- The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.