Classical Education Quotes

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

  Aristotle

  Faith, Education, Art

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Son, Opportunity

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1828-1858”

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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

  Aristotle

  Educational, Fate, Empires

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• A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

  Russell Green

  Graduation, Work, Wealth

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• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Learning, May

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

  George Orwell

  Education, Punishment, Doubt

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• No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

  James M. Barrie

  Responsible, Said, Darling

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Mind

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

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• Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

  Emile Zola

  Education, Men, Track

  Emile Zola (2015). “His Masterpiece: Works Of Zola”, p.286, 谷月社

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• The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Nature, Lying, Years

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2984, e-artnow

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