Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every facultyhow to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every facultyhow to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Henry Ward Beecher

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