#education

"Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama…or something."

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

"One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed."

"My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees."

"When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too."

"…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters."

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

"Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose."

"Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life."

"I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra"

"The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities."

"Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe."

"In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first"

"The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life."

"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school."

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

"One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding."

"I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old."