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.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

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.

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the read more

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.