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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
The world is run by C students.
The world is run by C students.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is read more
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose read more
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
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.