Quotes Tagged "education"

...madaming teacher sa labas ng eskwelahan. desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo.

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Those who trust us educate us.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.