You May Also Like / View all maxioms
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical read more
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has read more
It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
