The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – John Ruskin
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. – John Ruskin
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes