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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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.
A good teacher is a determined person.
A good teacher is a determined person.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
