Quotes

"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." - Sir Walter Scott

"Better to be damned for doing something right, than damned for doing nothing right."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." - George Santayana

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” (I think that's by: Neil Gaiman.)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop” -Mark Twain

“I never let schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." — Beatrix Potter

"Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor's course" -Unknown

"I, for one, refuse to stand by idly while my education is ruined." -Absentinsomniac

"I, for one, refuse to stand by idly while the school single handedly ruins education." -Absentinsomniac

The classroom is the last place to get the truth" - Zack La De Rocha

"Be the change you want to see in the world". Mahatma Gandhi

"Without fear there can be no courage". Quotegarden

"Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit has limited imagination". Anonymous.

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another [...] Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. -J. Frank Dobie

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. -George Bernard Shaw

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. -Socrates

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -Anne Sullivan

"The problems that attack body and soul are deflected, channelled, and re-cast, or substitute problems are simply fabricated; and we are encouraged to focus on the thus defined “attainable goals,” and we are rewarded for doing so by an also fabricated sense of “community.”" -Dennis G Rancourt

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