#education

"Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!"

"Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose."

"American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?"

"Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen."

"It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired."

"As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight."

"Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge."

"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."

"Karena kita tidak abadi, namun tulisan kita bisa abadi"

"What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything."

"I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

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

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons."

"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

"It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in forming the taste the manners and the character of the coming age."

"Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy."