education

"Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer."

"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

"Everything interested him and everything excited him."

"Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen."

"While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior."

"All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive."

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

"For success, attitude is often more important than education."

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

"‎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."

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

"I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination."

"It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in forming the taste the manners and the character of the coming age."

"There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it."

"The greatest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy soul."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."

"Wisdom is worth more than gold."