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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God is in control of history. God's control may take the form of caring, governing, protecting, sustaining, and preserving. He exercises His will through divine superintendence or by divine intervention

From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.

General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

Great minds think for themselves.

Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.