02.05.06
Education Quotes - Alan Simpson Quotes
Education Quotes - Alan Simpson Quotes
An educated man … is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
- Alan Simpson
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
- Alan Simpson
[The word liberal ] distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
- Alan Simpson
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
- Alan Simpson
Source: The Marks of an Educated Man
