#education

"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."

"Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life."

"In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well."

"College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line."

"Play is the highest form of research."

"When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal."

"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."

"There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy."

"If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be."

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"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."

"Art is a process, not a product."

"You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure."

"When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable."

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

"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."

"She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it."

"Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature."

"About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return."

"The more you read, the better you are informed."