education

"No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully youcultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquireand which you are not going to receive through revelation."

"One reads for oneself and for strangers."

"Words are, like wines."

"Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love."

"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence."

"Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted."

"Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light."

"To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn."

"The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate"of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back."

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

"He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.'And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?'In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving."

"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else."

"Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education."

"Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember."

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy."

"The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him."