#education

"I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does."

"You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens."

"Passion is a deep love for sacred activity."

"If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning."

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."

"Education is the process of selling someone on books."

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

"I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs"

"A brick could be used to perpetually feed the hungry, stop all wars, educate the masses, and ensure everlasting peace for all populations throughout time. Wait, I’m sorry, that’s not right. I was confusing a brick with a blanket. It’s a blanket that could be used for all those things."

"Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations."

"She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it."

"Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD."

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

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."

"Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation."

"You can learn at any age."

"A Christian goes to college to discover his vocation - and to develop skills necessary to occupy a section of cultural, intellectual domain in a manner worthy of the kingdom of God.A believer also goes to college to gain general information and habits of thought necessary for developing a well-structured soul suitable for a well-informed, good citizen of both earthly and heavenly kingdoms."

"Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out."