Thoughts on education

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.—Maria Montessori

An observation that in Boston is an accepted truth: If you’re from Harvard, you can’t count if from MIT, you can’t read.—Malcolm Forbes

Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.—Abbie Hoffman

For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.—EcclEsiastes 1:18 “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”—GK ChestertonTime is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.—Hector Berlioz

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: Unfit her for 80 percent of useful work of the world.—Toni Morrison

He knows the world and does not know himself.—Jean de la Fontaine In the schoolroom, more than any other place, does the difference of sex, if there is any, need to be forgotten.—Susan B Anthony

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