#education

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

"I believe in study. I believe that men learn much through study. As a matter of fact, it has been my observationthat they learn little concerning things as they are, as they were, or as they are to come without study. I alsobelieve, however, and know, that learning by study is greatly accelerated by faith."

"Progress just means bad things happen faster."

"Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on."

"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."

"We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children...."

"I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how lucky I’d been. It took a few hard knocks in life to make me realize the only thing my dad had ever wanted or worked for was to give me a chance at being better than him."

"It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind."

"More depended on the student than on the school."

"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)"

"As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality,is needed in our educational systems."

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."

"there is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets."

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

"Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything."