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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war read more
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
