education

"It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties."

"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."

"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."

"You can develop your talents to the highest level."

"When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life."

"Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community."

"Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value."

"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive."

"Is it bravery or stupidity? Education can decipher?"

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"I knew the second I met youthat there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you."

"The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him."

"You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens."

"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"Is he well educated?""Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone,"I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day..."

"I have an 8th grade education. Of course, I also have a bachelor’s degree."

"I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race."