Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go but without the discipline of real life they remain of the nature of theory only.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent not genius not inventive mental powers.
In Holland they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
If the Liberals' law is passed will sex education in the schools including elementary grades include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know about something you do not want to know.
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams and bit by bit it does seem to be working.