Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by p…

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the…