Educational Metaphors, Analogies and Similes
The mind is barren soil, and will produce no crop, unless it is continuously fertilized with foreign matter.
Our minds lie unexplored like Borneo a hundred years ago.
Those who don't study are cattle dressed in men's clothing.
Education is like a Chinese meal: a series of short courses, none of which you ever really finish.
But these tuition fees are hardly as expensive as the teacher called Experience.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated shoots up the rankest weeds.
Knowledge doesn't keep any better than fish.
There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they are open.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Facts are what pedantic people substitute for opinions. Facts are the trellis up which colourful, live opinions grow.
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
The professor bathed me at wisdom's font. Or more accurately, read word-for-word from his overhead transparencies that were an exact copy of his own book, his book being the only set book for the course.
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