#education

"You have a life; make a success of it."

"The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)"

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department"

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."

"Is it bravery or stupidity? Education can decipher?"

"Wisdom comes from education and experience—not from age."

"We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep."

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves."

"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."

"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."

"In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!"

"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."

"Wisdom is worth more than gold."

"As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end."

"A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential."

"Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn."

"A wise master teaches."