Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Your thoughts

For this week, please choose one quote to comment on from the list below.  Please spend some time thinking about your choice before posting.  Let it sit awhile.  Then, come back and share your thoughts.

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." -Bill Beattie

"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.  Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.  We must make our choice; we cannot have both." -Abraham Flexner

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a life, educate people." -Chinese Proverb

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