#education

"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."

"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."

"I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education."

"If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?"

"And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!"

"One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding."

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing."

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice."

"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

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

"Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future."

"While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along."

"Last year, millions of students didn’t graduate from high school. They didn’t drop out, they were simply in elementary and middle schools."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

"Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit."

"The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him."

"As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light."

"Thank goodness my education was neglected."