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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure read more
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from read more
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.
