I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the read more

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.