Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- Wiliam Butler Yeats
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
- Native American Saying
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
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
- Greek Proverb
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Publilius Syrus
Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Will Durant
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
- William Ellery Channing
Education is more than a luxury;
it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.
- Robin Cook
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
- John W. Gardner
Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am still learning.
- Michelangelo
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese Saying
Education should consist of a series of enchantments, each raising the individual to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and kinship with all living things.
- Author Unkown
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.'
- Diogenes Laetius
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
- Chinese Proverb
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
- Harry Firestone
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers