G.K. Chesterton’s 134th birthday was yesterday. Here are some of his education quotes compiled by Dana Gage:
According to Chesterton, understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts.
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Histories seem to have completely forgotten two things—first, that men act from ideas; and second, that it might, therefore, be as well to discover which ideas.
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If you forget far-off things, your sons and grandsons will remember them and rise up against you. – 1935
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The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy.
Schools should give us an eternal standard by which to judge every standard.
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Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine to convey some general view of life, it is not an education at all.
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Teach, to the young, men’s enduring truth, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
