#education

"Sacrifice precedes success."

"Some people think driving is speeding the car. Only to find out. Driving is not speeding the car but is being able to control the car."

"Words are, like wines."

"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."

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

"I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race."

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose"

"The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life."

"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."

"Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian."

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."

"School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

"I want to open up a School of Cannibalism. It’ll be a feeder school for top law schools."

"As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end."

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters."