Quotes

Education should not be the filling of the pail, but the lighting of a fire - William Butler Yeats

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence - Robert Frost (1874-1963

Do you believe in setting children's minds alive and ablaze with excitement and passion or is it a matter of filling them with facts and testing them on them? It depends on your vision of education - and I know which one I'd go for - Philip Pullman, http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/...

If the money spent on armaments was spent on education, there would be no more wars - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

In what university on Earth is one taught to dream, to be an idealist, a miracle-maker, a visionary, a prophet of a peaceful, perfect world? - Robert Muller

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence - Robert Frost

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn - Alvin Toffler

He who opens a school, closes a prison - Victor Hugo

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it - Sir William Haley

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions - Bishop Mandell Creighton

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