Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to read more

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.