education

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education."

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

"Thank goodness my education was neglected."

"I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old."

"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge."

"Karena kita tidak abadi, namun tulisan kita bisa abadi"

"Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it."

"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."

"To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people."

"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

"Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining."

"A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest"

"Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children."

"Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?"was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?"

"Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen."

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."

"Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you."

"It doesn`t hurt to get more education."