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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

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Teacher, Educational, Teaching
"What's Wrong With The World". Part Four: Education: Or the Mistake About the Child. Ch. 4: The Truth About Education. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Education, Book

[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Intelligent, Thinking, Going Away

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
People, Temples, Theology

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education, Teaching, School

The moderns do not realize modernity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Realizing, Modernity

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Running, Men, Thinking

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religious, Mean, Self

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Men, Good Man

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Were Meant To Be, Doubtful
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nature, Wine, Men

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fear, Expression, Emotion

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Men, Progress

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brotherhood, Church, Doe

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sensational, Simplification
"Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writing, Literature, Disease

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Loyalty, Suicide, Men
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Fruit, Thieves
"The Queer Feet". "The Innocence of Father Brown", Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1911.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Profound, Causes
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Believe, Forgiving

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Favour, Obvious, Skepticism

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Natural, Accepting

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Law, Criminals, Problem

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Numbers, Peasants, Millionaire

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Rights, Divine Right

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