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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.
Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.
I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can't change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.