education

"Progress just means bad things happen faster."

"Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills."

"I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books."

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

"Education enlightens our minds to see the world with new lights."

"While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise."

"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."

"[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue."

"وعلى المرء الإيمان بقدرة كل شخص على تعليم نفسه"

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

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

"Book is book."

"Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf"

"A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian."

"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."

"If we can teach everyone how to calm their minds, this world will see peace."

"Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation."

"Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival."