...pulling it back, like a ball with an elastic cord, within the radius of pertinent matters, vjnstinet alone compels us to neglect and seldom to recall the...- • were ever children. The great difficulty in edu- > , cation is to get experience out of ideas. Shame, ' . . conscience, and reason continually...

...10. The pathway from imperfect to perfect recognized truth leads through the valley of reality. 9. The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. 10. A free mind does not measure the worth of anything by the worth of anything else. Albert Schweitzer...

...the educated are free." — Epictetus "Very few can be trusted with an education." — Louise Guiney "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." — Santayana "When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains." — Anonymous "I have...

...Experience is the best teacher, but if you can get it second-hand the tuition is less. Moisha Rosen The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a blockhead. George Saville...

...to educate themselves. Knowledge is power. Information is thin stuff, unless mixed with experience. The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. We trust our heart too much, and we don't trust our head enough. To be able to enjoy one's past life...

...Daniel J. Boorstin "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." — Edward Everett "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." — George Santayana "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to...