#education

"About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return."

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

"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."

"the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself."

"To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you"

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

"There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy."

"The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion."

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?"

"Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher."

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

"Thank goodness my education was neglected."

"The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life."

"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."