1. Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.
2. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
3. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
4. The chief function of body is to carry the brain around.
5. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask remains a fool forever.
6. Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
7. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you to make a living; the other helps you make a life.
8. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
9. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
10. If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
11. There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
12. For every person wishing to teach, there are thirty not wanting to be taught.
13. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
14. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Несколько лет назад неожиданно заметила, что ум и начитанность - далеко не одно и то же, и поразилась, насколько явно это различие проявляется в людях.
Вот несколько цитат в этой связи:
И ещё парочка на тему того, что за образованием вовсе не обязательно идти в учебное заведение: