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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early read more

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure read more

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."