It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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