education

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

"School prepares you for the real world... which also bites."

"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."

"Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen."

"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."

"I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself."

"The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now."

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."

"We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves."

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."

"Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?"

"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."

"All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward."

"Book is book."

"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."

"Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements."

"The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important."