vee’s most recent Quotables

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Respect yourself and others will respect you