1. Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)  

1. 教育不是注满一桶水,而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝 B W)  

2. Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)  

2. 教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)  

3. Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)  

3. 教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特.W.)  

4. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive  easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)  

4. 教育使一个民族容易领导,但是难于驱使;容易管理,却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)  

5. Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)
 

5. 每个人都受两种教育,一种来自别人,另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋 E)

6. Example is always more efficacious than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)  

6. 身教胜于言教。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊 S) 

7.For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece. (Anton P.Chekhrv, Russian dramatist)  

7. 一个受过教育的人,不懂外语是极不方便的。(俄国剧作家 契克夫 A P)  

8. Genius without educaton is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin, American president)  

8. 未受教育的天才,犹如矿中之银。(美国总统 富兰克林 B)

9. How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the mere rudiments of education , to range through a library at random, taking down books as the mother wit suggests! (John Henry, British Cardinal Newman)  

9. 受到初步的基础教育之后,对于愿意独立思考的人来说,在图书馆里信手取下一本书来,根据个人的天赋随意涉猎,这该是多大的好处啊!(英国纽曼红衣主教 享利 J)  

10. I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. (Robert Moses, American state govenment officer)  

10. 我早已抛弃了这种观念:高等教育是通往成功或者幸福的必由之路。知识的“温室”并不总能生长可供食物用的粮食。(美国州政府官员 摩西 R)