education

"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."

"მე მომხრე ვარ, რომ სკოლაში ისწავლებოდეს რელიგიის ისტორია საერთოდ. მაგრამ არა ქრისტიანობის ისტორია გამოყოფით. რელიგიის ისტორიის სწავლება ჩემთვის ნიშნავს ყველა დიდი რელიგიის -ქრისტიანობის, ისლამის, იუდაიზმის, ბუდიზმის - ძირეულ დებულებათა შედარებით შესწავლას."

"[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue."

"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."

"People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing,Except death that is, and even on that they disagree.Some say the soul goes on after the death of the bodyWhile others claim the soul, with the body, dies too."

"All of life is a constant education."

"A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you."

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!"

"Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths."

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."

"Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges."

"Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower."

"They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!"

"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."

"A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity."

"The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education."

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."