education

"Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of."

"By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits."

"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."

"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."

"Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle."

"Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer."

"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."

"Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear."

"But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist."

"Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life."

"[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest."

"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."

"A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn."

"Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers."

"You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!"

"Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

"We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies."