Education

Education is the turning of the soul toward the Good, a conversion of the whole person.

Education forms virtue through habituation, then perfects it with reason.

The true teacher is not the speaker but Christ within. Signs can prompt, only truth can instruct.

Teaching is real but dependent: the teacher arranges signs; the learner discovers truth with the natural light of intellect.

Form judgment, not memory. A well-made head is better than a well-filled one.

Education forms the mind through gentle habituation, shaping reason, virtue, and character by experience.

Let nature teach. The child's education should follow the unfolding of his own capacities.

Education forms autonomous rational agents, disciplining nature to make room for freedom.

Education develops individuality; diverse, cultivated, independent minds are the soul of a free society.

Education is the management of repression; civilization buys freedom from instinct at a psychic cost.