“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.” ~~ Roald Dahl
Filed Under: Education, Roald Dahl, Values
This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~~ Helen Keller
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” ~~ Edward Everett
“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.” ~~ Sir Ken Robinson
“Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~~ Beverly Sills
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” ~~ Jane Austen
“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” ~~ M.C. Escher
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