“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” Continue reading
Anatole France on Education
“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
Mark Twain on Education
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” 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
Michel De Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” Continue reading
Georges Clemenceau on Experience
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” 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
Albert Einstein on Education
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Continue reading
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