"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"
"education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly"
"We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies."
"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."
"Self education is the key to self liberation."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
"Sacrifice precedes success."
"Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago"[Without learning, life is but the image of death]"
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing"
"As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end."
"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
"While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."
"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."
"To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike."