Twenty-Four

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
– Aristotle

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

Twenty-Three

To ask a question may bring a moment’s shame, but not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifetime of shame. – Geoffrey Moss

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles P. Steinmetz

Twenty-Two

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
– William Arthur Ward

Good teachers learn from their mistakes. Great teachers learn from other's mistakes.– Reed Markham

Twenty-One

Modern cynics and skeptics . . . see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
– John F. Kennedy

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
– Evan Esar

Twenty

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – Sir John Lubbock

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. – Sir William Haley

Nineteen

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
– Plutarch

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
– William Butler Yeats

Eighteen

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
– Aeschylus

Education is the best provision for old age. – Aristotle

Seventeen

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
– John W. Gardner

Sixteen

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
– Alexander Pope

Fifteen

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. – Danish proverb

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. – Chinese proverb