education

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?""A long one?"

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

"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."

"Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything."

"An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything"

"If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be."

"One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."

"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."

"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..."

"There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening."

"I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader."

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

"Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession."

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"

"To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn."

"The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election."

"There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy."