#education

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

"Progress just means bad things happen faster."

"Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements."

"I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding."

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."

"The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures."

"Какъв е смисъла на образованието - помисли си, - щом хората ще го ползват?"

"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."

"If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from."

"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."

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

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

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

"If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community."

"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

"Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills."

"Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit."

"Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked."