- The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett - Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
Chinese proverb - If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn - People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan - Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.
Claus Moser - What sculpture is to a block of marble
education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison - Education makes a people easy to lead
but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham - Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato - It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S. Eliot - If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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