Some Education Proverbs

Education make a people easy to lead,
but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
Wiliam Butler Yeats

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American Saying

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterson

Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Frederick W.Robertson