#education

"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."

"Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly."

"Begin to acquire knowledge."

"Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama…or something."

"The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best"

"The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home."

"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."

"I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF."

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them."

"PhD is possible at any age!"

"They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values."

"Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is."

"Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians."

"[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue."

"The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)"

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

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."

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