9 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Education

Michel de Montaigne quotes on education

10. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

15. We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

16. Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness.

19. 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.

65. 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.

83. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

86. 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.

99. 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.

140. We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.