#education

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is."

"At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds."

"Live your epitaph"

"A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born."

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."

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

"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."

"It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices."

"Science is a careful investigation."

"The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information."

"There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

"If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued."

"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."

"A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself."

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

"Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices."

"You can't learn everything you need to know legally."

"I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life."

"Begin to acquire knowledge."