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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
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.
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
