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Quotations on the nature of education, and what people have tried to make of it instead.
Quotations on the nature of education and related ideas, and what people have tried to make of them instead.
=Positive=
=Positive=
* The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
* The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
==Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)==
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
==Daniel Defoe==
==Daniel Defoe==
==Johann Gottlieb Fichte==
==Johann Gottlieb Fichte==
* The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
* You must fashion [the person], and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
:Addresses to the German Nation
==John Stuart Mill==
==John Stuart Mill==