Education » Quotes

Rachel Wadham — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:42:21 +0000

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

Rachel Wadham — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:09:09 +0000

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

Rachel Wadham — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:22:36 +0000

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 don’t hesitate to ask!

Haul it away

Rachel Wadham — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:06:28 +0000

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

Rachel Wadham — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:18:48 +0000

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