Education

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some to chewed and digested.

-Francis Bacon

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.

-John Milton

Education is the leading of human souls to what is 
best, and making what is the best out of them.

-John Ruskin

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our
progress in education.  The human mind is out
fundamental resource.

-John F. Kennedy

A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And the drinking largely sobers us again.

-Alexander Pope

To your tender and loving hands the future of the
nation is entrusted.  In your innocent hearts the pride
of the nation is enshrined.  On your scholastic development
the salvation of the nation is dependant.  When you return
to your classes after independence, remember therefore, each
 and every one of you, that you carry the future of Trinidad
and Tobago in your school bags.

-Dr. Eric Willians, Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
Message to the Youth of the Nation Independence Youth Rally,
30th August 1962.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

-Steele

A University should be a place of light and liberty and of learning.

-Benjamin Disraeli

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor
did any of my inventions come by accident; they
came by work.

-Thomas Edison

The pen is mightier than the sword.

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish  to be a writer, write.

-Epictetus