Sometimes our institutions (the schools) are like sand dunes in the desert-shaped more by influences than purposes.
There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one�s country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Sometimes our institutions [the schools] are like sand dunes in the desert-shaped more by influences than purposes.
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
If your vision is for one year, plant rice; if your vision is for 10 years, plant trees; but if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.
Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles.
When you open a school, you close a jail.
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.
If you think education is expensive – try ignorance.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Education is what survives when what you have learned has been forgotten.
Sometimes our institutions, the schools, are like sand dunes in the desert�shaped more by influences than purposes.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.
Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles.
An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world.
Unlearned in history, people allow themselves to be governed by the Unknown Past.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife.
If your vision is for one year, plant rice; If your vision is for 10 years, plant trees. But if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.
The mind, once enlightened, cannot again be dark.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas.
Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.