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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.
A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
We don't believe that you should ever replace physical education. Even in a thousand years, a computer will never be able to do so.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.