School Quotes

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
- W.H. Auden

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

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.
- Kahlil Gibran

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.
- Ernest Renan

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
- Margaret Laurence

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School BoardMark.
- Twain