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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Where the press is free and every man
is able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness,
the general mind must be strengthened by education.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition
for building up a sound education.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every spirit makes its house,
and we can give a shrewd guess
from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
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