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Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
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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)
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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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
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
- William Allin
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
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
Where the press is free and every man
is able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
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 what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness,
the general mind must be strengthened by education.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
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 only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- 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
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition
for building up a sound education.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
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
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
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
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