Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has read more

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

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