"Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
The teacher is not in school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to those influences.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
