education

"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]"

"...rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement."

"Passion is a deep love for sacred activity."

"The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions."

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

"If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning."

"Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher."

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

"Begin to acquire knowledge."

"Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive."

"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."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive."

"To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people."

"The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it"

"My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing."

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

"To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself."