#education

"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."

"But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education."

"It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra."

"(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

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

"At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character."

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."

"[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue."

"Liberate yourself from any mental captivity."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously."

"There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instructions needed. They understood things in a real, not theoretical, way. They seemed not to care about their grades."

"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."

"Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices."

"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."

"Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family."

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

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."