Quote for the day 20-01-2015
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley
“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Henry Peter Brougham
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
“Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before […]
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” -Robert M. Hutchins
“Education is the best provision for old age.” – Aristotle
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of both mind and body will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.” – John F. Kennedy