F.D.R. was neither an outstanding student nor athlete, but he entered enthusiastically into life at Groton and did well enough to go to Harvard in 1900. At Harvard he put much of his energy into his social life and extracurricular activities' Source "I have never let schooling interfere with my education" Mark Twain



"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." E. M. Forster "...often there is little or no payoff from having a little bit more..." Lester Thurow "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." Leonardo da Vinci "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." Oscar Wilde "Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results." John Dewey “The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.” Sam Weinberg

The most important thing about education is appetite. Winston Churchill "...Strengthening values also demands a national commitment to excellence in education. Ronald Reagan "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." Robert Frost "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch “Education is no substitute for intelligence." Frank Herbert "A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.” Abraham Lincoln The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women . Booker T. Washington

