Cat Quotes - Page 15

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?!

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.