education

"She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise."

"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."

"Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred."

"Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life..."

"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open."

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts."

"The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)"

"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."

"But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God."

"In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it."

"A delight to read is a great treasure."

"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."

"Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed."

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."