#education

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer."

"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."

"I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college."

"If it's really education you want for Nathan,' Buell said, 'have him read the papers, so he'll know what's going on in the world, and why. Teach him to be interested in everything he doesn't understand - interested enough to find out about it from books or people that aren't afraid to tell the truth."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser."

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."

"I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place"

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

"Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend."

"The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new."

"I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries."

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids."

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

"If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself"