#education

"But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education."

"You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world."

"In large part, we are teachers precisely because we remember what it was like to be a student. Someone inspired us. Someone influenced us. Or someone hurt us. And we’ve channeled that joy (or pain) into our own unique philosophies on life and learning and we’re always looking for an opportunity to share them—with each other, our students, parents, or in our communities."

"In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun."

"All of life is a constant education."

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

"I don't care what kind of grades they give you at Delcroix. I wanted you to go there so you'd have a chance to learn how to use your gifts, and be confident enough to fight for what you believe in."

"She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it."

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

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]"

"Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth."

"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."

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

"You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself."

"Do not be afraid ask questions."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

"…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."

"Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free."