#education

"Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend."

"I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education."

"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few 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."

"True education creates a new reality for humanity."

"As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"The best investment for poverty elimination is education."

"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it,"yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation."

"I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF."

"No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number "while 5/2 is an "improper fraction."They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?"

"We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible."

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

"There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn."

"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."

"education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another."

"Pursue your dreams with all diligence."

"You are allowed to think whatever you want at Emory, so long as it is approved by administrators. They are watching."

"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."

"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"

"Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me."