Or aphorisms as they used to be called, culled from the Oxford Book of Aphorisms. A rather scary one to start with:

Education does not consist merely in adorning the memory and enlightening the understanding. Its main business should be to direct the will.
- Joubert, Pensées, 1842

Hm. I say: inform it, and inspire it, yes, but … direct it?

This is better:

Books we want to have young people read should not be recommended to them but praised in their presence. Afterwards they will find them themselves.
- Lichtenberg, Aphorisms, 1764-99

Actually I don't see the harm in a recommendation, so long as you don't slide into directing the will, and keep going on about it. Make your recommendation, but then give it a rest.

The self-educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
- Isaac d'Israeli, The Literary Character, 1795

And I like this:

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
- Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882-7

This I like, too:

You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
- Saki, 'The Baker's Dozen', Reginald in Russia, 1910

Here is one that makes a lot of sense of universities these days:

The University brings out all abilities, including stupidity.
- Checkhov, Notebooks, 1892-1904

This is very true:

To teach is to learn twice.
- Joubert, Pensées, 1842 (again)

And this, finally, nicely summarises the case against the discovery method of learning:

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Antrim, Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, 1902

Got to rush. Out to dinner. Probably too much yesterday, not much at all today, but that's blogging for you.