Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

The importance of all education lies far more in the training of minds than in any facts which may be absorbed, for trained minds will ascertain the facts as they need to know them. Having learned to reason and to weigh the information they discover, people with such minds will be more nearly educated than any amount of cramming of definite facts into their heads will make them.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Education forms the common mind.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.