education

"Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me."

"EVERYONE NEED EDUCATION,ITS THE NEED OF A NATION,IN IT IS FUTURE'S FOUNDATION,IT LEADS TO HEARTS ASPIRATION,AND TOMORROWS INSPIRATION."

"The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?"

"You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure."

"College is not important, Knowledge is"

"I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read."

"nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose"

"What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything."

"The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)"

"In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!"

"The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important."

"If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated."

"I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that."

"Honor your relationships by developing listening skills."

"We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart."

"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated."

"Self education is the key to self liberation."

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."

"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?"

"The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state."