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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only read more
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step read more
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela read more
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.