“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Winston Churchill on Learning
“Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Continue reading
Thomas Merton on Education
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Education
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
Al McGuire on Politics
“I think the world is run by ‘C’ students.” Continue reading
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on TV and Books
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Education
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Continue reading
Aristotle on Education
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” Continue reading