“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Georges Clemenceau on Experience
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” Continue reading
Winston Churchill on Learning
“Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Continue reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” 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
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
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” Continue reading
John Wilmot on Children
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.” Continue reading
Galileo Galilei on Ignorance
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Continue reading
Will Durant on Education
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Continue reading
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