education

"....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life."

"Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

"An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students."

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

"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."

"When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes."

"Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy."

"Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."

"What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less."

"In large part, we are teachers precisely because we remember what it was like to be a student. Someone inspired us. Someone influenced us. Or someone hurt us. And we’ve channeled that joy (or pain) into our own unique philosophies on life and learning and we’re always looking for an opportunity to share them—with each other, our students, parents, or in our communities."

"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."

"Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task."

"Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got."

"I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does."

"School prepares you for the real world... which also bites."

"Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her."

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."