Quotes About Classical Education

#1. I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

#2. Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Aldous Huxley

#3. I had had a classical education prior to that.

Skitch Henderson

#4. No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA."
He had had a classical education.

J.M. Barrie

#5. Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Emile Zola

#6. A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.

Raymond Chandler

#7. Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt

#8. Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by collaborating with different pop/rock artists and especially by recording and working in the studio.

Luka Sulic

#9. A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

#10. Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

Christian De Duve

#11. The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#12. If you're not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

Wilford W. Andersen

#13. We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

Douglas Wilson

#14. Who keeps putting alcohol in my alcohol?

Tara Sivec

#15. The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

Arthur Lynch

#16. The world is a fabric woven of mysteries, and a mystery is a provocation to our humanity that cannot be dissolved by googling a few more bits of information.

Stratford Caldecott

#17. Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

John Maynard Keynes

#18. Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.

Anna Godbersen

#19. It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

Paul Auster

#20. We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.

Karen Glass

#21. education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music and litter the floors and chairs all over our home with open art books. Jack, age three, eats his lunch with a big Goya book propped in front of him asking for the

Frank Schaeffer

#22. When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

#23. Wherever Reformed convictions gained a foothold, there was a revival of classical learning and interest in the arts and sciences - not only among the highly educated, but even among the daily laborer, who also had more access to basic education.

Michael S. Horton

#24. The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.

Jan Peter Balkenende

#25. I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

Lorde

#26. When we show love, we make any day a sacred day. - Pauline Sheehan -

Gary Chapman

#27. The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

Gloria Steinem

#28. Each cat has a distinct purrsonality.

Richard L. Peterson

#29. If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

Robert Emerson Coleman

#30. What are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

Thomas Jefferson

#31. Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#32. Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, civil society.

Samuel P. Huntington