Athens Quote by Isocrates

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

— Telly Savalas

Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful writings bequeathed…

— Johnny Luckett

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should…

— Chris Hedges

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

— John Ruskin

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that…

— G. Stanley Hall

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into…

— Edwin Percy Whipple