On Intelligence
The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. — John Holt, in How Children Fail
On Education
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. — Anatole France
Life’s Adventure
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. — Sir Winston Churchill
The Value of Reading
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. — Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
The True Aim of Education
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last […]
On Children and Obedience
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. — Anatole Broyard
Learning Takes Effort
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. — Abigail Adams
On Being Smart
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. — Lord Chesterfield
Are You Truly Educated?
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle This is, I think, a very important point which we tend to forget in our debates both here on Blogit and elsewhere in society. Only the truly educated person can confront an alien thought and […]