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10.1.09
Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Virgil:
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virginia Woolf:
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
Virginia Woolfe:
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Will Durant:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
William Butler Yeats:
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William E. Gladstone :
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
William Ellery Channing:
But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing:
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.
William James:
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
Winston Churchill:
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
