“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to…”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

— Henry Adams

“We learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.”

— Seneca

“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

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