Skip to content

Education Quote by E.M. Forster

“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and…” quote by E.M. Forster
Download Open image
““It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?””

E.M. Forster

2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

More by E.M. Forster

Explore all 274 E.M. Forster quotes

More Education quotes

Browse all 31,525 Education quotes