Quotes Tagged "education"

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.