#education

"…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."

"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."

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

"You can learn at any age."

"Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?"

"I believe in study. I believe that men learn much through study. As a matter of fact, it has been my observationthat they learn little concerning things as they are, as they were, or as they are to come without study. I alsobelieve, however, and know, that learning by study is greatly accelerated by faith."

"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,"she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."

"A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born."

"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."

"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."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."

"Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit"

"Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge."

"Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf"

"...rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement."

"When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too."

"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."

"The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate"of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back."

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown."