#education

"I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know."

"part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot."

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

"We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it."

"Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational."

"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."

"Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you."

"An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students."

"An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions."

"Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world."

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

"What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood."

"The quest for knowledge is passion to study."

"Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.'They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program."

"It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea."

"Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life."

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

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts."

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."