Horace Mann on education

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

• Life & Death

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

• Ideas

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius551–479 BC

• Thinking