education

"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence."

"Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices."

"Self education is the key to self liberation."

"I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding."

"We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it"

"They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!"

"Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?"

"Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?"

"Education, boy, is not something to prepare you for life. That is a vulgar American error.… It's something to take you out of life."

"Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed."

"Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you."

"Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)"

"You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world."

"As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight."

"College is not important, Knowledge is"

"The quest for knowledge is passion to study."

"Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life."

"People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing,Except death that is, and even on that they disagree.Some say the soul goes on after the death of the bodyWhile others claim the soul, with the body, dies too."

"Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human."

"Sensibly, it is better to be an illiterate or less educated and make an earning of an amount X than be highly or moderately academically qualified and yet be paid X or even less or marginally high."