#education

"A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it"

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."

"Self-education is the greatest self-liberation."

"...Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?"

"Teachers are the one and only people who save nations."

"Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education."

"Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars."

"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."

"Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about."

"Thus, for those of us who make only a brief study of chemistry, the benefits to be expected are of an indirect nature. Increased capacity for enjoyment, a livelier interest in the world in which we live, a more intelligent attitude toward the great questions of the day--these are the by-products of a well-balanced education, including chemistry in its proper relation to other studies."

"Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education."

"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding."

"I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs"

"[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority."

"The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius."

"Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community."

"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."

"Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."