education

"While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along."

"Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world."

"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."

"All that you seek is hidden in book."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction."

"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."

"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"Everything interested him and everything excited him."

"O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)"

"Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life."

"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education."

"Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it."

"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."

"We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant."

"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."

"I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF."

"It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life."