Sunday, August 31, 2008

Education

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
- WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
- Dick Cavett
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
- Bobby Knight
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan

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