Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.
Want to fix it all? Save the world? Change the system? Ensure progress? Get books into the hands of kids... and your work will be done.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Ignoring isnβt the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
