education

"Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained."

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

"Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.And you will see my children; your smile will never let you down ☺"

"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions."

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

"You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana."

"Education is the process of selling someone on books."

"Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller."

"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."

"This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open."

"in reality there is no such thing out of profit and loss .education is commerce"

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"Getting rid of poverty is not about making the rich more aware: it’s about educating the poor and empowering them from within."

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new."

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