英语名言录(一)
EducationYou don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
[[i] 本帖最后由 甲鱼 于 2007-5-24 14:02 编辑 [/i]] It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius Good moring Mr XU, let me give you a hand.
A child is better to be unborn than untaught. Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell (1918 - ) Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995) The more, the merrier. Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880 The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals