Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Education
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He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk- they are all part of the curriculum.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.