Douglas Wilson Quotes

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

Education made us what we are.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Education is what allows you to stand out

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

While we teach, we learn.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.