Here are some more quotations on the subject of education and learning. Choose the one you like best.

Ÿ         “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” [Aristotle]

Ÿ         “Only the educated are free.” [Epictetus]

Ÿ         “What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life.” [G.B. Shaw]

Ÿ         “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” [H.G. Wells]

Ÿ         “There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.” [Francis Bacon]

Ÿ         “Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.” [Thomas Fuller]

Ÿ         “Learning is not child’s play: we cannot learn without pain.” [Aristotle]

Ÿ         “Men learn why they teach.” [Seneca]

Ÿ         “The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.” [George Herbert]

Ÿ         “Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you can have one.” [Lord Chesterfield]

Ÿ         “A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them.” [William Hazlitt]

Ÿ         “The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.” [O.W.Holmes]

Ÿ         “There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor.” [G.B. Shaw]

Ÿ         “Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it.” [Shakespeare]

Ÿ         “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” [Tennyson]

Ÿ         “It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right.” [H.L. Mencken]

Ÿ         “Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” [Oscar Wilde]