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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. read more
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose read more
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
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.
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.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
