Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. – John Ruskin
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. – John Ruskin
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. – John Ruskin
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of mans future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individuals total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori