Spreuken over Onderwijs

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.