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To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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.
Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.