What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much read more

What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.

It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to read more

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up read more

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.