#education

"Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad."

"Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them."

"She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything."

"Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations."

"My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!"."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"All that you seek is hidden in book."

"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow."Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."

"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated."

"A brick could be used to perpetually feed the hungry, stop all wars, educate the masses, and ensure everlasting peace for all populations throughout time. Wait, I’m sorry, that’s not right. I was confusing a brick with a blanket. It’s a blanket that could be used for all those things."

"Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly."

"You grow by educating yourself to be more aware and more conscious."

"To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you"

"Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring"

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

"Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements."

"Read great books and be great."

"If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors"

"Education gives light, life and liberty."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."