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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
— George Eliot
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
— John Milton
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
— Anonymous
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
— Oscar Wilde
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
And oh, Fair plant, said he, with fruit surcharged, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor Man? Is knowledge so despised? Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?
— John Milton
One fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd Forbidden them to taste. Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know? Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith?
— John Milton
It is fervent prayer, humility, lowliness of mind, godly fear and reverence of the word, and subjection of conscience unto the authority of every tittle of it, a constant attendance unto the analogy of faith, with due dependence on the Spirit of God for supplies of light and grace, which must make this or any other means of the same nature effectual.
— John Owen
Ignorance of God is the source of all wickedness and confusion among men. From this ignorance arouse that flood of abominations which God swept away in Noah's day. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were burned up with fire from heaven. In short, all the rage, blood, confusion, desolations, cruelties, oppressions and disasters which fill the world to this day, by which the souls of men have been swept into eternal destruction, have all arisen from the ignorance of God.
— John Owen