education

"Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia"

"True education creates a new reality for humanity."

"Educate yourself to the highest degree."

"The greatest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy soul."

"Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges."

"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

"All I have learned, I learned from books."

"Some men never recover from education."

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."

"An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything"

"Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task."

"A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future"."

"Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family."

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."

"Dans les sociétés vernaculaires, l'éducation est homéotélique vis-à-vis de Gaïa"

"Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test."

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