education

"Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert."

"In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently."

"Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care."

"Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today."

"As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher."

"Is it bravery or stupidity? Education can decipher?"

"In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first"

"An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books."

"For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities."

"...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses..."

"Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth."

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

"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."

"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."

"She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?"

"He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be."

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."

"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

"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."