"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 "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." "The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art." "Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them." More In Education "Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours – all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life – it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat."― James Van Der Beek "English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street."― E. B. White "I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn