“The principal goal of education is to create individuals who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.”
-Jean Piaget
“This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.”
-Maria Montessori
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
-William Butler Yeats
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”
-Allan Bloom
“It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others.”
-Mark Twain
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
-Daniel Akaka
The defining feature of a great education is what happens in the classroom. Everything starts from that and must be built around it.
-Bill Gates
Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.
-Ropo Oguntimehin
