Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

The Church used to educate; the pedagogy of the modern world only instructs. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 468

An education without the humanities prepares one only for servile occupations. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464

Educating the individual consists in teaching him to distrust the ideas that occur to him. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 463

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...

The classical humanities educate because they ignore the basic postulates of the modern mind. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...

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...

Man does not become educated through the knowledge of things but through the knowledge of man. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Man is an animal that can be educated, provided he does not fall into the hands of progressive pedagogues. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Se...

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

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

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 I...

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...

The interpretation of an event given by an indoctrinated hick tends to be correct. The interpretation given by a well-instructed and semi-le...

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

Good breeding seems like a fragrance from the 18th century that evaporated. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 347

The purpose of sex education is to make it easier to learn sexual perversions. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 334

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

Formal instruction does not cure foolishness; it arms it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 328

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...