Accents Quote by Benjamin Rush

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about…

— Benjamin Rush

“The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.”

— Novalis

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of…

— John Milton

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek…

— James Loeb

An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.…

— Jeremy Narby

“Most important of all: in our anxiety to "improve" the world and insure "progress" we have permitted our schools to become laboratories for social…

— Barry M. Goldwater

“The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has been charted and mapped out. But outside…

— E.F. Benson

“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which they are…

— Henry Giroux

“The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a…

— Booker T. Washington

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History;…

— Thomas Jefferson