Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire - William B. Yeats
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Words of Wisdom-18:
An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself - Sydney Wood
Words of Wisdom-17:
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence - Robert Frost
Words of Wisdom-16:
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient - Edmund S. Wilson
Words of Wisdom-15:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Brooks Adams
Words of Wisdom-13:
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not - Albert Einstein
Words of Wisdom-12:
Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave - John Ruskin
Words of Wisdom-11:
The whole object of education is to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works - Sherwood Anderson
Words of Wisdom-10:
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught - George Savile
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