In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
Interpretation
Education should be a lifelong pursuit accessible to everyone.
Abraham Maslow emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and the idea that education should not be confined to the traditional college years. He advocates for an ideal educational model where people can seek knowledge throughout their lives, highlighting that learning is a lifelong journey rather than a one-time phase.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of continuous education.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every schoolβs curriculum.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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