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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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The most important thing about education is appetite.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.
Well done is better than well said.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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