“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” — Goethe
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Teaching is a work of heart.” — Unknown
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” — Thomas A. Edison
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” — Albert Einstein
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” — Robert Frost
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” — Abigail Adams
“It is better to learn late than never.” — Publilius Syrus
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” — Diogenes
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” — Edmund Burke
“Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.” — John Wayne
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.” — Winston Churchill
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer