Quotes I Like

‎"My education was interrupted only by my schooling."

 ~ Winston Churchill

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~ Lily Tomlin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
~Benjamin Franklin

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~ Gandhi

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

~ Einstein

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.
~ Plato

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

~ Anne Sullivan

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.
~ Melinda Harmon, U.S. Federal Judge, 1996

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Thank goodness my education was neglected.
~ Beatrix Potter