Logo
Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Risk
Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Education
category

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. – William Glasser

Category:
Education

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing. – Vince Cable

Category:
Education

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district. – Joe Baca

Category:
Education

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. – Michael Morpurgo

Category:
Education

Random Quotes

My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the Pinkerton tour, and Pinkerton is the reason why Im doing this. – Nate Ruess

Category:
dad

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. – William Glasser

Category:
Education

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. The rich colours of grass and earth were intensified by the mellow light of a sun almost warm enough for spring… – P.D. James, A Taste for Death

Category:
Autumn

In matters of truth the fact that you dont want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Category:
Truth