education

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family."

"Music and symbols, they're older than human race.Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind."

"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."

"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."

"Educate yourself to the highest degree."

"The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them."

"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."

"I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF."

"If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself"

"A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more."

"We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it."

"No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number "while 5/2 is an "improper fraction."They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?"

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

"‎Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn."

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

"A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential."

"All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same."