Thoughts—Education	
QUICK CHECK:	
Tell me and I'll forget.  Show me, and I may not 
remember.  Involve me, and I'll understand.     
  —Native American saying
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of 
freedom.   —George Washington Carver
Education is the most powerful weapon which you 
can use to change the world.      —Nelson Mandela
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for 
tomorrow.  The important thing is not to stop 
questioning.   —Albert Einstein
You can lead a man up to the college, but you can’t 
make him think.   —Finley Dunne
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
lighting of a fire.   —William Yeats
Perhaps the most valuable results of education are 
the ability to make yourself do the thing you have 
to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it 
or not.     —Thomas Huxley
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything 
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.   
    —Robert Frost
The test and use of man’s education is that he finds 
pleasure in the exercise of his mind.      —J. Barzun
The important thing is not so much that every child 
should be taught, as that every child should be given 
the wish to learn. —John Lubbock
The goal of education is to prepare the young to 
educate themselves throughout their lives.
    —Robert Hutchins
Try to learn something about everything — and 
everything about something.  —Thomas Huxley	
1. Native American saying:  What happens if you:
 a) Tell me?  b) Show me?  c) Involve me?
2. Einstein: What is the important thing?
3. Yeats:  What is education?
4. Huxley:  What are the 3 results of education?
5. Frost:  What 2 things does education keep you 	
from losing?	
6. Barzun:  In what should a man find pleasure?
7. Lubbock:  What should every child be given?
8. In your opinion, what did Franklin mean when 	
he said, "If a man empties his purse into his 
head, no one can take it from him"?	
9. LeTendre:  What walks through the doors of our 	
schools every day?	
10. Spender:  What is the aim of education?
11. Toynbee:  What is the aim of education?
12. a) Which quote did you like?  b) Why?
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can 
take it from him.  —Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
   —Greek saying
America’s future walks through the doors of our 
schools every day. —Mary LeTendre
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
   —Leonardo Da Vinci
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but 
action.                —Herbert Spender	
Education is the mother of 
leadership.
 —Wendell Willkie
The aim of education is 
to teach people to educate 
themselves.
   — Arnold  Toynbee
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