#education

"There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises"

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

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."

"I want to open up a School of Cannibalism. It’ll be a feeder school for top law schools."

"He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected."

"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."

"A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn."

"Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul."

"Art is a process, not a product."

"He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes."

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

"Keenly seek knowledge."

"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."

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

"The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom."

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers."

"Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education."

"He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher – which is a stout lever to raw mass."