John Mason Brown Quotes

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live.