 darkduskx says: The main pillar of democracy is a well-informed populace. If people's education is low then their perception of the world can be easily manipulated. Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, and while guided and controlled by virtue, the noblest attribute of man. It is the only dictator that free men acknowledge, and the only security which freemen desire. Mirabeau B. Lamar A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander of Macedon To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri-Frederic Amiel The primary purpose of education is ... A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James Baldwin Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. Bill Beattie Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok Public education should be the first object of government. Napoleon Bonaparte It is possible... A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers Education makes the man. James Cawthorn Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harverst. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests. Kuan Chung Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. Kenneth B. Clark A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke Knowledge is the only i... He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. Danish Proverb Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana Education is a social process... Education is growth... Education is, not a preparation for life; Education is life itself. John Dewey The foundation of every Nation is the education of its youth. Diogenes Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Benjamin Disraeli The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark van Doren A little learning, indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people... Fredrick Douglass Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will D... Only the educated are free. Epictetus Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett When a man's education is finished, he is finished. E. A. Filene Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in know... Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield Liberty can be safe only when Suffrage is illuminated by Education. James A. Garfield Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. Henry S. Haskins Genius is nothing but continued attention. Claude A. Helvetius I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom... As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous... In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis w... We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society.... we have truly entered the century of the educated man. Lyndon B. Johnson Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance. Lyndon Baines Johnson To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.... If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Sir Richard Livingstone Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock If we suceed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. John Lubbock No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Walter Lippmann Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They ... Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Horace Mann If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow A free man cannot long be an ignorant man. William McKinley All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. Desireé Joseph Cardinal Mercier Los mejores amigos son los buenos libros. "The ... In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message... the drawing out, not the pumping in. Ashley Montagu No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. Sir Willaim Osler That's what education means - to be able to do what you've nevre done before. George Herbert Palmer Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into a life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. ... It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplier The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. Fredrick William Robertson Knowledge - that is , education in its truest sense - is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice, and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities or panic-stricken leaders. Franklin D. Roosevelt A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes a free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility tha... Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings. Lou Ann Walker The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells From the very beginning of his his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. Alfred North Whitehead A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. Author unknown An... An excellent hours work there Darkduskx, if I may say so! Education does that to a person  |
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