education

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."

"The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"

"A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian."

"Science is a careful investigation."

"Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

"Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l'activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l'apprentissage n'est pas le resultat de l'instruction. Elle serait plutôt le résultat d'une participation dans un environnement chargé de sens."

"Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."

"Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes."

"Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia"

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."

"part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot."

"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."