education

"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]"

"The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places."

"Segregation shaped me; education liberated me."

"Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life."

"Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking"

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."

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

"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."

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

"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."

"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."

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

"My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!"."

"[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."

"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."