Bits Quote by Walter Ciszek

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

— David Hume

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to the spawning…

— Derrick Jensen

“imitation of notable models as an effective spring of learning; was the most ancient and effective motivation to learn—to become like someone admirable—put to…

— John Taylor Gatto

Medieval learning was really advanced.

— Terry Jones

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“these fond parents were not blind to the value of education it was that they realized only its external value. That is to say,…

— Ivan Goncharov

“Children should be taught about history not as is usually the case now, that this is the record of long past events, which one…

— Doris Lessing

“Education is helping people understand something they don’t already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get…

— John Piper

“Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The very word, religio—to bind (ligio) back (re)—suggests exactly this. Thus these ancient cultures remained profoundly backward oriented. This ritualized return to a primordial…

— Gil Bailie

“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with…

— C.S. Lewis