Study the following quotes about education and see if you accept the ideas expressed in the quotes.

 

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

⊙ The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.                                 — Ralph Waldo Emerson 

About R. W. Emerson (1803–1882): R. W. Emerson, a US poet and writer who had great influence on the religious and philosophical thought of his time.

 

  W. B. Yeats

⊙ Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.    

— W. B. Yeats

About W. B. Yeats (1865–1939): W. B. Yeats, an Irish writer of poems and plays, whose early work is often based on old Irish stories. He is considered one of the most important Irish writers, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

 

 

 Galileo

⊙ You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. 

—Galileo