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“Education doesn’t have aims. It is the aim of other things.”
— Andrew Abbott, "Welcome to the University of Chicago", Aims of Education Address, September 26, 2002
“Nicht vor Irrthum zu bewahren, ist die Pflicht des Menschenerziehers, sondern den Irrenten zu leiten, ja, ihn seinen Irrthum aus vollen Bechern ausschlürfen zu lassen, das ist Weisheit der Lehrer. Wer seinen Irrthum nur kostet, hält lange damit Haus, er freuet sich dessen als eines seltenen Glücks; aber wer ihn ganz erschöpft, der muß ihn kennen lernen, wenn er nicht wahnsinnig ist.”
— Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups. That is the wisdom of teachers. He who merely tastes of his error will keep house with it for a long time. … But he who drains it to the dregs will have to get to know it.
“The ruling clique approaches its task with a "what to think" program; the vanguard elements have much more difficult job of promoting "how to think."”
— Huey P. Newton, Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 55ę
“Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for “vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.”
— Leo Strauss, “What is liberal education,” Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 8
“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”
— James Madison, letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822. The Writings of James Madison, ed. Gaillard Hunt, vol. 9, p. 105 (1910). These words are inscribed in the Madison Memorial Hall, Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building.
“Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.”
— William Whitehead, The Roman Father, Prologue.

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