education

"Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!"

"Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on."

"The word "education"comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

"Great books make great being."

"Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."

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

"La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendrá de lo bien que se enseñe en sus escuelas la multiplicación y las tablas periódicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginación y la creatividad."

"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."

"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is."

"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."

"He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice."

"College is not important, knowledge is"

"Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind."

"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."

"We had a policy of "no looking back". Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions."Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work."

"Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly"

"The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it"