Education Quote by Edmund Wilson Download Open image “Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.” — Edmund Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Education Hope Hope Hope Liberal Lasts Liberal Liberal Periods Periods
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth;… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
