education

"I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."

"Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write."

"Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being."

"education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another."

"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."

"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

"Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion."

"The greatest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy soul."

"We had a policy of "no looking back". Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions."Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work."

"Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education."

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

"Begin to acquire knowledge."

"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."

"The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)"

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

"We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves."

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."