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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.