"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." ― George Santayana Topic(s): Education Tags: difficulty, education, great More From George Santayana "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character." "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." More In Education "Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."― Anita Roddick "When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office."― Jackie Chan "Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations."― Ron Lewis