#education

"It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea."

"That's what education should be,"I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."

"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."

"The greatest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy soul."

"...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses..."

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"

"As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality,is needed in our educational systems."

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

"There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."

"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."

"When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal."

"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."

"Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma,tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes."

"Yusufu alikuwa hohehahe kabla na baada ya kuuzwa na nduguze kama mtumwa nchini Misri. Hakuwa na pesa, hakuwa na elimu, hakujuana na viongozi wa serikali. Lakini kwa vile alikuwa na Mungu, Mungu alimbariki mpaka watu wote wakashangaa. Yusufu alikuwa maskini ili mimi na wewe tuwe na tumaini leo, kwamba tukiwa na Mungu katika maisha yetu hatutatafuta utajiri. Utajiri ndiyo utakaotutafuta sisi."

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."