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Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Only the educated are free.

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.