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.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
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"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it read more

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the read more

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without read more

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.