education

"When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes."

"The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school."

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

"Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars."

"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."

"Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

"Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth."

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

"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."

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors"

"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television."

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

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

"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."

"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."

"When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand."