education

"When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."

"There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few."

"PhD is possible at any age!"

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."

"Without books, the world will be void."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."

"Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"there is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining."

"Education will only take you so far. To go even further, I’d recommend getting a piggyback ride from a midget half your body weight."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"The path of light is the quest for knowledge."

"I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries."

"What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?"

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before."

"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."