education

"A brick could be used to perpetually feed the hungry, stop all wars, educate the masses, and ensure everlasting peace for all populations throughout time. Wait, I’m sorry, that’s not right. I was confusing a brick with a blanket. It’s a blanket that could be used for all those things."

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"

"It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes."

"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."

"Self education is the key to self liberation."

"Education enlightens our minds to see the world with new lights."

"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"

"Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve."

"College is not important, Knowledge is"

"Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted."

"As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history."

"One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."

"What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it."

"All I have learned, I learned from books."