#education

"The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women."

"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."

"The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions."

"You have a life; make a success of it."

"Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man."

"The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought."

"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."

"My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing."

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"in reality there is no such thing out of profit and loss .education is commerce"

"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."

"Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."

"Observe & accept what ever arises & know that everything is as it needs to be."

"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."

"Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer."

"وعلى المرء الإيمان بقدرة كل شخص على تعليم نفسه"