Pleasure

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.