education

"By seeking and blundering we learn."

"Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred."

"A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument"

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

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."

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

"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."

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

"ليس هناك كتابا أقرأه و لا أستفيد منه شيئا جديدا ، فحتى الكتاب التافه أستفيد من قراءته ، أني تعلمت شيئا جديدا هو ما هي التفاهة ؟ و كيف يكتب الكتاب التافهون ؟ و فيم يفكرون ؟"

"I don't care what kind of grades they give you at Delcroix. I wanted you to go there so you'd have a chance to learn how to use your gifts, and be confident enough to fight for what you believe in."

"The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?"

"Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth."

"There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy."

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

"Everything interested him and everything excited him."

"Liberate yourself from any mental captivity."

"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."