“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.” ~Grayson Kirk

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.” ~Thomas H. Huxley

“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~Helen Keller

“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is to learn how to learn.” ~John Naisbitt

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in danger!” ~Confucius

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin

“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind.” ~Robert Grave

“An education is what you have left after you have forgotten all of the course content.” ~unknown

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate the person.” ~Kuan-tze

“I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” ~Mark Twain

“Higher education is not just another family obligation to be financed, a charity to be paid, or a function of government to be supported. It is indeed all these things, but it is plainly and simply the future.” ~Robert Atwell, ACE

“I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?” ~P. Ustinov

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” ~Will Rogers

“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitudes.” ~T.S. Eliot

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” ~Ben Franklin

“A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education.” ~1961 Rockefeller Panel Project

“The primary purpose of a liberal arts education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.” ~Sydney Harris

“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.” ~William Arthur Ward

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~William Butler Yeats

“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” ~G. M. Trevelyan

“We ought to be able to learn some things secondhand. There is not enough time for us to make (all) the mistakes ourselves.” ~Harriet Hall

“The entire object of a True Education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just but to hunger and thirst after justice.” ~unknown

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” ~Eric Hoffer

“The most important subject in this school is You.” ~Reg E Walker


Japanese proverbs

 You can know ten things by learning one.
 To teach is also to learn.



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