Henry Brooks Adams Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount
of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

by:	Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams
Source:	The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, 1918
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Categories:	Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning
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Reader comments about this quote:

I like it, How factual of him ;-) The factoids and other sound bites of politicians and their government schools and media more replace education than cultivate knowledge or a full understanding. -- Mike, Norwalk
As Mark Twain said, "Never let schooling get in the way of your education". -- jim k, Austin, Tx
Damn JFK for starting the federal department of education and getting the federal courts involved in our educational system. It's a real government education system now. -- Cal, lewisville, TX