#education

"Pursue your dreams with all diligence."

"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence."

"But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist."

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Dans les sociétés vernaculaires, l'éducation est homéotélique vis-à-vis de Gaïa"

"I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?"

"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."

"Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers."

"She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis."

"An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything"

"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."

"Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?"

"Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)"

"It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life."

"(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."

"It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read."

"We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live."

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

"The world of book is the stream of souls."

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."