Teachers are free to teach, but not to preach—to educate but not to indoctrinate.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
After graduation, I discovered that I'd hit the limit of what I could learn from the women in my family. On top of that, in the workforce, all of the things that mattered in college suddenly weren't enough.
You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.
I don't care how much you know, how many books you read, how you much you study and, you know, how educated you are, you're still going to struggle. Life is challenging.
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
