education

"Some men never recover from education."

"Educate yourself to the highest degree."

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference."

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education."

"On ne naît pas femme: on le devient."

"Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same."

"We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself."

"Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education"

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."

"Passion is a deep love for sacred activity."

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

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"Know the history of the great ancestors."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"The Mother Thing makes our world."

"It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing."

"For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

"Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better."

"...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative."