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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.
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.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. read more
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
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.
