Fault Quote by Rutger Bregman

“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.”

— Brent Weeks

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more…

— John Dewey

It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

— C. V. Raman

“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”

— Suzanne Collins

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology…

— Jonah Goldberg

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms…

— Richard P. Feynman

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

— Nellie L. McClung

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

— Stephen Kinzer

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well…

— Philip Pullman

“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

— Robert M. Hutchins

“If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.”

— Margery Sharp