#2,942

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,933

The Church used to educate; the pedagogy of the modern world only instructs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,906

An education without the humanities prepares one only for servile occupations.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,896

Educating the individual consists in teaching him to distrust the ideas that occur to him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,873

When we suspect the extent of the innate, we realize that pedagogy is the technique of what is secondary.
We only learn what we were born to know.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,861

The classical humanities educate because they ignore the basic postulates of the modern mind.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,860

Someone who did not learn Latin and Greek goes through life convinced, even though he may deny it, that he is only semi-cultured.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,765

Man does not become educated through the knowledge of things but through the knowledge of man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,714

Man is an animal that can be educated, provided he does not fall into the hands of progressive pedagogues.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,421

An extensive card catalog, an imposing library, a serious university, produce today those avalanches of books that contain not one error nor one insight.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#2,258

The problem of educating the educators is a problem which the democrat forgets in his enthusiasm for educating the pupils.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 366

#2,245

The most dangerous illiteracy is not that of a man who disrespects all books, but that of a man who respects them all.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#2,233

The cultured man and the simple man do not take an interest in anything but what spontaneously attracts them; the semi-cultured man only has artificial interests.
The semi-cultured man is the good fortune of the merchant of “culture.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 362

#2,199

The interpretation of an event given by an indoctrinated hick tends to be correct.
The interpretation given by a well-instructed and semi-learned personage is always false.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 358

#2,136

“Religious instruction” appears at times to have been invented in order to counteract the religious effectiveness of the liturgy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 348

#2,129

Good breeding seems like a fragrance from the 18th century that evaporated.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 347

#2,063

The purpose of sex education is to make it easier to learn sexual perversions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#2,061

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts the languages that are in use.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#2,020

Formal instruction does not cure foolishness; it arms it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,912

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313