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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Teaching, Learning
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Men, Differences

I do not teach. I relate.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Teaching, Teach

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Memories, Understanding
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Children, Freedom
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.123, Stanford University Press

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Art, Teaching
Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Self, Littles
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Book, Giving
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.297, Stanford University Press

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, World, Speech
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.392, Stanford University Press

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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