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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

John Ruskin
Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin
Education, School, Diversity
Unto This Last Essay 2 (1862)

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

John Ruskin
Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes
John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Education, Teacher
"The Works of John Ruskin: The crown of wild olive".

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin
Education, Giving, Educate

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin
Education, Mean, Government
John Ruskin “Fors clavigera”

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

John Ruskin
Education, Meaningful, Able

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin
Education, School, Soul
John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

John Ruskin
Christian, Education, Animal
John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

John Ruskin
Education, Teaching, Mean
John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.230, Cosimo, Inc.

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