education

"The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization."

"I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place"

"Jede Propaganda ist so gefährlich wie die Dummheit, auf die sie trifft."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

"To find a focus, learn to love and dream."

"Watching TV at my own time. Its beneficiary, but watching TV at its own time . Its time wasting."

"I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know."

"I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that."

"Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit"

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

"A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more."

"I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old."

"Without books, the world will be void."

"the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."

"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"

"We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible."