Education
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2.The education of mankind and of nations
2a.Revelation as the education of the human race
See also: Race and Nationality 7c · Progress 1a · God 2d · Religion 3b
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human RaceVol. 32
- p. 185–186Lessing likens Revelation to education: it gives the race, earlier and more easily, what reason might attain unaided, in a measured order.read · scan
- p. 186–187A raw, childlike people could receive only moral education by sensible rewards and punishments.read · scan
- p. 187–189God taught the childlike Jews as a schoolmaster must, not hurrying the pupil; they were trained to be teachers of the race.read · scan
- p. 190–191The Old Testament is like a children's primer that may omit knowledge but must not block the way to it.read · scan
- p. 192–193The child abroad sees others who know more and finds the fault lies in its own neglect of the primer.read · scan
- p. 195–196The Old Testament as primer works by previous exercises, allusions and hints without blocking the suppressed truth.read · scan
- p. 196–198Keeping a child in a primer beyond its age breeds hair-splitting and superstition, as with the Rabbins; Christ comes as the better instructor.read · scan
- p. 198–199The New Testament is the second, better primer for humanity, exercising and enlightening reason.read · scan
- p. 199–200A single shared primer educated diverse nations better; the youth must first treat it as the final book.read · scan
- p. 202–203Revelation compared to the ciphering master's 'that makes'; the race, like the individual, is educated toward a goal.read · scan
- p. 203–205Human and divine education of the race aim to make man do right for its own sake, beyond rewards.read · scan
2b.Education as the means of social and political improvement
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 42After population and wealth, the people need teaching.read · scan
- p. 44–45The educated man is earnest, encouraging and kind; untaught men sent to battle are wasted.read · scan
- p. 57–58A gentleman who has conned the truth loves mankind; poor folk who have are easy to rule.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 942The prophet teaches the Book and wisdom to those formerly in obvious error.read · scan
William Caxton, Prefaces and EpiloguesVol. 39
- p. 15–16Laments that London's promising children ripen into chaff; offers Cato's book as guide to rule oneself and instruct the ignorant.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 367Benefit of clergy conjectured to have been devised to draw a people despising letters to love learning.read · scan
John Milton, AreopagiticaVol. 3
- p. 206Unwritten laws of virtuous education and civil nurture, not licensing, are the true bonds and pillars of the commonwealth.read · scan
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning EducationVol. 37
- p. 54The nation's virtue and learning depend on laying the foundation in the education and principling of youth.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 66–68The club's pooled books grow into the first subscription library, making tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as gentlemen.read · scan
- p. 74–75The subscription library made reading fashionable and left colonists better instructed and more intelligent than people of like rank elsewhere.read · scan
- p. 91Almanac used as vehicle to instruct the common people.read · scan
- p. 91–92Newspaper and almanac used as means of communicating moral instruction to the public.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 163–164The essays initiated both sexes into the elegances of knowledge, teaching duties and sublime truths.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among MankindVol. 34
- p. 222Sparta's laws regarded the education of children, making manners that made laws almost needless.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 215Learning should remain the instructor, not aspire to be master; it will be trampled without its protectors.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 260–262Scotland is praised for every science and art that informs the mind and mends the heart.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 230–231Political improvement must come from ennobling character, but a barbarous social constitution hinders it.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 345Means of culture spread through the community will remove defects of manner.read · scan
- p. 345–346People must be taught to think justly, love truth, and be grounded by wise culture in the principles of religion and society.read · scan
George Washington, Washington's Farewell AddressVol. 43
- p. 243Institutions for diffusing knowledge are of primary importance so public opinion is enlightened.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American ScholarVol. 5
- p. 18–19Revolution will come through domesticating Culture; the upbuilding of a man is the world's main enterprise.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoliticsVol. 5
- p. 239–240The education of the general mind never stops.read · scan
- p. 241If men can be educated, institutions will share their improvement.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 326Emerson lectures to Mechanics' Institutes and Lyceums in the north of England.read · scan
- p. 400–401Some money returns to buy schools, libraries and Mechanics' Institutes as inadequate compensation.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 58–60James Mill's influence on education and law reform is noted.read · scan
- p. 71–72Hoped educated intellect would enlighten selfish feelings and reform mankind.read · scan
- p. 106–107Democratic power would make it the interest of the opulent to educate the people; institutions chosen as an educational question.read · scan
- p. 107–108Mill hoped anti-property doctrines would scare higher classes into seeing they have more to fear from the uneducated poor.read · scan
- p. 110–111Austin valued the education and mental improvement of all ranks, holding an enlightened people the security for good government.read · scan
- p. 111–113Social and educational influences may unfold mankind's moral capabilities; Socialism would compel the powerful to educate the people.read · scan
- p. 122Imagines Parliament used as a teacher's chair to instruct the public mind.read · scan
- p. 141–143Universal education hoped to make the poor's lot tolerable; imperfect education makes the mass feared.read · scan
- p. 143–145Co-operative experiments educate participants to act on motives for the general good.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyVol. 25
- p. 265–267Extension of education assimilates people by bringing them under common influences.read · scan
- p. 306Self-managed local and voluntary enterprises and jury trial serve as mental education and political training of citizens.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 360Raising the sailor's intellectual and religious character is the remedy.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 126National faults resolve into childish illiterateness and lack of education in ordinary habits of thought.read · scan
- p. 132The only cure for public distress is public education making men thoughtful, merciful and just.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, DemocracyVol. 28
- p. 468Educating future rulers is advised but insufficient, since educating intelligence enlarges desires that must then be legitimately satisfied.read · scan
2c.Dangers of education without moral or religious formation
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 58Each virtue without love of learning degenerates into a fault: fondness, presumption, cruelty, harshness, turbulence, oddity.read · scan
Plutarch, CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 159Reason and discipline had not formed his character for public life.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 263–264Ill-educated curates read prescribed homilies because able pastors are scarce after past spoiling of universities.read · scan
Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of LeviathanVol. 34
- p. 335Those not taught the beginnings of the sciences see geometry as conjuring, like children told babies are found in gardens.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 103–104Schoolmaster Gripe-man taught them the art of getting.read · scan
Jonathan Swift, A Letter of Advice to a Young PoetVol. 27
- p. 119Calls the playhouse a school where young people shed childish prejudices and learn vices.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 280–282Philosophers propose a Civic Education based on physical wants and enlightened self-interest to replace religion.read · scan
William Blake, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 587–588Teaching a child to doubt is condemned; respect for the infant's faith triumphs over death.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Essay Supplementary to PrefaceVol. 39
- p. 315To be mistaught is worse than to be untaught.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 324–325Education and the pulpit fail to inculcate an impartial, earnest love of truth.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 262–263Doubts whether culture of the intellect increases happiness or probity; intellect developed apart from the man yields monstrous, unsatisfied scholars.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 323Wordsworth says superficial tuition outruns moral culture; schools do no good, tuition is not education, circumstances educate.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyVol. 25
- p. 244Moral training on an exclusively religious type discards secular standards and harms character.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 369Intellectual cultivation without religious instruction only makes an ignorant sinner an intelligent and powerful one.read · scan
- p. 369–371Scientific and political education of sailors without a right heart to guide judgment does harm.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 110Modern education gives people the faculty of thinking wrong on every important subject.read · scan
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