5 Desiderius Erasmus Quotes on Education

Desiderius Erasmus quotes on education

1. Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque, ut pecuniam accpero, Graecus primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

5. Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

6. Indeed, a constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery.

9. Education is of far greater importance than heredity in forming character.

15. The rules of grammar are crabbed things to many persons... it is important early to instil a taste for the best things into the minds of children, and I cannot see that anything is learned with greater success than what is learned by playing, and this is, in truth, a very harmless kind of fraud, to trick a person into his own profit.