"What is the true national education? That which makes children absorb the national spirit unconsciously." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Good manners mean more than learning." ~~ Tanna Deve Eliyahu R.
"The critic must be like a grinding-stone: to grind and not to cut. " ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"A tent cannot stand without pegs and cord, and Israel cannot stand without scholars." ~~ Seder Eliyahu R.
"To practise (Not to practise) what one teaches. " ~~ Talmud, Chagigah; Talmud, Yevamot
"Say not: when I have leisure I will study, lest you may not have it!" ~~ Avot 2:4
"The talk of the child in the street is that of his father or mother at home." ~~ Talmud, Sotah
"Education…should concern itself primarily…with the liberation, organization, and direction of power and intelligence, with the development of taste, with culture." ~~ Abraham Flexner
"Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning." ~~ Midrash Eliyahu R.
"For learning, the ear is more useful than the eye." ~~ Gerondi
"He who studies but does not repeat his lessons is as one who plants but does not enjoy the fruit." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin 90
"Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 16
- Next Page »