A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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.

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
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"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is read more

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,

Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.