Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert FrostTags: education
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonTags: education literature illiteracy journalism
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Peter S. JennisonTags: reading books education censorship illiteracy
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: paraphrased education censorship free-speech
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix PotterTags: education creativity uniqueness self-education
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
Claire FaginTags: education inspiratonal
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor HugoTags: education
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane AustenIt is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert EinsteinTags: education learning creativity regimentation
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
T.H. WhiteTags: education learning curiosity teaching depression
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