FAMOUS QUOTES ON EDUCATION

Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.
Wiliam Butler Yeats

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American Saying

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterson

Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Frederick W.Robertson

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S. Eliot

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb