Quotations
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"...it has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about
education so little stress is ever laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated
person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up in the
world of thought--that is to be educated." Edith Hamilton, American Translator &
Classical Scholar, 1867-1963
"The only thing better than education is more education." Agnes E. Benedict,
American Educator, 1889-1980
education so little stress is ever laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated
person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up in the
world of thought--that is to be educated." Edith Hamilton, American Translator &
Classical Scholar, 1867-1963
"The only thing better than education is more education." Agnes E. Benedict,
American Educator, 1889-1980
"Have you ever been at sea in a
dense fog, when it seemed as if a
tangible white darkness shut you in
and the great ship, tense and
anxious, groped her way toward the
shore with plummet and
sounding-line, and you waited with
beating heart for something to
happen? I was like that ship before
my education began, only I was
without compass or sounding line,
and no way of knowing how near the
harbour was. 'Light! Give me light!'
was the wordless cry of my soul, and
the light of love shone on me in that
very hour." Helen Keller
dense fog, when it seemed as if a
tangible white darkness shut you in
and the great ship, tense and
anxious, groped her way toward the
shore with plummet and
sounding-line, and you waited with
beating heart for something to
happen? I was like that ship before
my education began, only I was
without compass or sounding line,
and no way of knowing how near the
harbour was. 'Light! Give me light!'
was the wordless cry of my soul, and
the light of love shone on me in that
very hour." Helen Keller
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks
for knowledge of all around us, and the
more we gain, the more is our desire; the
more we see, the more we are capable of
seeing." Maria Mitchell
for knowledge of all around us, and the
more we gain, the more is our desire; the
more we see, the more we are capable of
seeing." Maria Mitchell
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeates
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if
you are planning for a decade, plant
trees; if you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people." Chinese Proverb