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.

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.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

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.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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.