VALUE OF EDUCATION Education is a companion which no misfortune can decrease, no crime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave; at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an…
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MIRRORS TO WINDOWS Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is…
IGNORANCE & FACTS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -- Henry Adams in The Education of Henry Adams
EDUCATION & UNDERSTANDING Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. "Epigrammatically Speaking" -- Ambrose Bierce
EDUCATION IS LIFE ITSELF Education is a social process... Education is growth. ...Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. -- John Dewey
HONEST EDUCATION To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. -- John Ruskin
EDUCATIONAL INDEPENDENCE The chief end of higher education is not to make man dependent upon teachers but independent of them. -- L.D. Haskew
RESPECT IN TEACHING The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
BITTER ROOTS OF LEARNING The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -- Aristotle
SCHOOL NEVER ENDS Just when you think you have graduated from the school experience, along comes a whole new course.
REAL EDUCATION The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love…
RESPONSIBILITY & EDUCATION Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make ourselves do the thing we have to do when it ought to be done, whether we like it or…
EDUCATE FOR PEACE Let us make our enemies incapable of ever making war again, let us re-educate them, let us learn to live in peace and justice with all countries and all people in this…
GOETHE ON COMMITMENT Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is an elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless…
NO BRIDGES & NO RIVERS Stop worrying. The bridges you cross before you come to them are almost always over rivers that aren't there. From the Chicago Tribune, March 3, 1995
GANDHI ON CULTURES I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my…
OUR NEED TO KNOW We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any…
MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE The best way to get your dreams to come true is to first wake up and then do something about them.
WORK IS PATH TO SUCCESS Success comes to those who are too busy to look for it -- Hank Kreutzinger
FAMOUS FAILURES Michael Jordan, one of basketball's greatest players, did not make the high school basketball team in his sophomore year. His coach said "he wasn't good enough." Mickey Mantle struck out 710 times. Emily…
