“ The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. Elbert Hubbard Writer
“ The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. H. L. Mencken Journalist
“ I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it. Thomas Carlyle Philosopher
“ You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. Ethel Barrymore Actress
“ Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. Adam Gopnik Writer
“ The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. Simone Weil Philosopher