Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. read more

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.