It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.

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.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy read more

There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.