#education

"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."

"Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower."

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

"There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

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

"I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know."

"…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."

"Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking"

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

"A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian."

"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."

"Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers."

"Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer."

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."

"Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."

"Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation."

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

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

"Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed."