education

"They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods,"which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it."

"One reads for oneself and for strangers."

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

"The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace."

"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

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

"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."

"To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new."

"You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive."

"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."

"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."

"One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."

"Үйл үйлдэх, үхэж одох, эрхлэн наадах тэргүүтэндҮдшийн бүрий, үүрийн харанхуйг үл цээрлэхчлэнҮтэлж доройтсон, өчнөөн нялх алинд чҮсэг эрдэм сурахыг хичээх нь нэгэн адил хэрэгтэй"

"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers."

"I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses."

"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."

"Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value."

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

"The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse."