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  Posted July 26, 2010 by Rachel Wadham

  The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. — Eric Hoffer

• Quote from Louis L’Amour
  Posted March 20, 2009 by Rachel Wadham

  Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. — Louis L’Amour

• Need Help? Just Ask
  Posted June 12, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

  An Information Specialist has more than 9,736 information sources. Only one of them is Google.~ Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services  If you need help finding and using one of those 9,736 information sources please contact the subject librarian, Rachel Wadham, or contact the staff at the social science/education reference desk.  We can help, so [...]

• Haul it away
  Posted October 3, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. — George Lorimer

• To Be Educated
  Posted September 19, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated. — Edith Hamilton