education

"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."

"…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters."

"You grow by educating yourself to be more aware and more conscious."

"Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""No"Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons."

"The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods,"which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it."

"Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.'They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

"My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing."

"Your silence will not protect you."

"A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it"

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons."

"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..."

"It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea."

"Education shouldn’t be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge."

"Do not be afraid ask questions."

"Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism."