#education

"You can learn at any age."

"I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them."

"As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct."

"Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

"Wo ein Gebildeter weilt, kann keine Rohheit aufkommen."

"On ne naît pas femme: on le devient."

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

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

"[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue."

"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."

"As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality,is needed in our educational systems."

"A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child's character. It is never good for anyone's character."

"The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school."

"Like my grandpa, who dropped out of school to farm, I have a 4th grade education. Of course, I have a college degree, too. Both require the same reading level."

"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."

"I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past."

"Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence."

"But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist."

"She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything."