“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~~ Joseph Addison
Education
“The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.” ~~ Marva Collins
“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” ~~ Abraham Lincoln
“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” ~~ Richard Feynman
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” ~~ Robert Maynard Hutchins
“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” ~~ W. B. Yeats
“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.” ~~Deborah Meier
