“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Plutarch on Wisdom
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Continue reading
Alec Bourne on Education
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Continue reading
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Education
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Continue reading
Aristotle on Education
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Continue reading
William G. McAdoo on Ignorance
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.” Continue reading
Thomas Merton on Education
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Science
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” Continue reading
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Continue reading
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