" Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "
-- William Butler Yeats
" I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
-- Albert Einstein
" I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. "
--Agatha Christie
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding."
-Ezra Loomis Pound
"Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
" Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. "
-- Melinda Harmon, Federal Judge, 1996