Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Teaching
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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