education

"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."

"They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!"

"A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you."

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

"Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico."

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

"You could say sorry,"suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?"muttered Ron."What did you have to imitate her for?""She laughed at my mustache!""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen."

"Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system."

"L'éducation est un processus culturel (...) par lequel chaque nouvel individu est transformé en membre à part entière d'une société humaine particulière, partageant avec les autres membres une culture particulière."

"La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendrá de lo bien que se enseñe en sus escuelas la multiplicación y las tablas periódicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginación y la creatividad."

"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]"

"It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind."

"This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."

"It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in forming the taste the manners and the character of the coming age."

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

"Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy."

"Education helps you to be what you really want to be."