#education

"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

"Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession."

"Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking"

"If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself"

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"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."

"A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity."

"What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?"

"I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?"

"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."

"Liberate yourself from any mental captivity."

"Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained."

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much."

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

"The Mother Thing makes our world."

"My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."