If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. It won’t fatten the dog.įriendship is a horizon – which expands whenever we approach it. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.Įducation costs money, but then so does ignorance.Įducation is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Įducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Įducation is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.Įducation is not preparation for life education is life itself.Įducation is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.Įducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.Įducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.Įducation is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.Įducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Įducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.Įducation is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.Įducation is… doing anything that changes you.Įducation should be exercise it has become massage.Įducation 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.Įducation… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.Įvery child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.Įvery time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
Teach them to question everything.Įducation aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.Ī liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.Īn educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.Īll the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.Īn investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.Īround here, we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.īefore any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education…to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.īetter than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.Ĭhildren have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ĭhildren must be taught how to think, not what to think.ĭo not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.ĭo you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him and in that I am his pupil.ĭon’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read.