“The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.” ~~ Martha Beck
Filed Under: Children, Humor, Martha Beck
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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“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ~~ A. A. Milne
“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness.” ~~ Carl Rogers
“What’s another word for thesaurus?” ~~ Steven Wright
“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” ~~ Sojourner Truth
“Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying ‘I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award.’ The other is ‘You want fries with that?'” ~~ Robin Williams
“Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.” ~~ Elbert Hubbard
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~~ Dr. Seuss
