"Getting rid of poverty is not about making the rich more aware: it’s about educating the poor and empowering them from within."
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"You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?""A long one?"
"Like my grandpa, who dropped out of school to farm, I have a 4th grade education. Of course, I have a college degree, too. Both require the same reading level."
"As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end."
"All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand."
"It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra."
"As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light."
"…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters."
"It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read."
"If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?"
"A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn."
"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
"But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from."
"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
"More depended on the student than on the school."
"He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing."