"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."
― John Ruskin
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Education
More From John Ruskin
- "Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
- "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
- "In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."
More In Education
- "I’ve got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it’s what children bring into school with them."― Johann Lamont
- "I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."― William Glasser
- "I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."― Carl Sagan