education

"education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another."

"Last year, millions of students didn’t graduate from high school. They didn’t drop out, they were simply in elementary and middle schools."

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."

"Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world."

"Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge."

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."

"Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival."

"Yusufu alikuwa hohehahe kabla na baada ya kuuzwa na nduguze kama mtumwa nchini Misri. Hakuwa na pesa, hakuwa na elimu, hakujuana na viongozi wa serikali. Lakini kwa vile alikuwa na Mungu, Mungu alimbariki mpaka watu wote wakashangaa. Yusufu alikuwa maskini ili mimi na wewe tuwe na tumaini leo, kwamba tukiwa na Mungu katika maisha yetu hatutatafuta utajiri. Utajiri ndiyo utakaotutafuta sisi."

"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."

"We are in the school [or mortality] and keep learning and we do not expect to cease learning while we live on earth; and when we pass through the veil, we expect still to continue to learn and increase our fund of information."

"If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship."

"For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write"

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"Experience is the opposite of education."

"An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything"

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"The world of book is the stream of souls."

"Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul."

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."