#education

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"When asked "What do we need to learn this for?"any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."

"Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world."

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

"In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it."

"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."

"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"

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

"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]"

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."

"Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"Education will only take you so far. To go even further, I’d recommend getting a piggyback ride from a midget half your body weight."

"I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination."

"I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from."

"Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail."

"A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied."

"The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate"of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back."

"This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness."