education

"You can present the material, but you can't make me care."

"American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?"

"The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him."

"When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too."

"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."

"The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women."

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."

"Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills."

"A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm."

"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."

"There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises"

"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."

"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."

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

"True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion."

"Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself."

"Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."