What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
On ne naรฎt pas femme: on le devient.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
โI know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
