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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.
Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.