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“I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.”

Thinking Knows Should Girl Education Boys Know How Danger Educate

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.”

May Education Danger Traditional Traditional Education

Book:Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas

Source: Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas

“Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.”

Religious Education Danger Source Fanaticism

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?”

“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”

Certain Education Enemy Danger Revolutionary Carrie

Book:Literature and Revolution

Source: Literature and Revolution

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.”

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

People Inspirational School Education Knowledge Danger Horrible Educated Orthodoxy Dangerous Things Educated Person Compulsory Education

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

Thinking Giving Doe Lost Education Knowledge Learning Danger Giving Up Philosophical Chinese Not Giving Up Chinese Philosophy Continuous Learning Never Stop Learning Chinese Philosopher Inspirational Learning Chinese Culture

Book:论语

Source: 论语