Education Quotes - Page 27

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.