John Ruskin Quotes About Education
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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
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