The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
...madaming teacher sa labas ng eskwelahan. desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo.
[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.
Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
