"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."
― John Ruskin
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Education
More From John Ruskin
- "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
- "Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."
- "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
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- "Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."― Garrett Hardin
- "I had had a classical education prior to that."― Skitch Henderson
- "Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain’s scientific competitiveness."― Vince Cable