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For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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

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

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

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.