Children should not just be filled with facts by teachers but should learn to think independently and educate themselves. Education should inspire a lifelong love of learning by engaging students' curiosity through questioning rather than criticism from adults. When children find pleasure in learning, the quality of their work will be higher.

1. Letting the Kids Make the Rules!

2. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. – Robert Hutchins

3. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

4. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – W.B. Yeats

5. The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert Maynard Hutchins

6. Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert

7. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

8. Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions. - D.T. Max

9. Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. - George Orwell