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.

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the read more

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.