education

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority."

"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."

"We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live."

"PhD is possible at any age!"

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit"

"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free."

"For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities."

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

"The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new."

"The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it."

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."

"Education will only take you so far. To go even further, I’d recommend getting a piggyback ride from a midget half your body weight."

"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."