Common man Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the…

— Harold B. Lee

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

— Anthony Trollope

There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

— Abraham Flexner

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

— Abraham Flexner

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

— Samuel Richardson

My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not…

— Robert M

“In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system…

— Scott Parker

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

— Thomas Sowell

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of…

— Ted Sizer

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

— Matthew Kelly