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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.