It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a...

I saw the poverty; I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems.

We’ve reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive...

When you have a purpose of life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines–ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we’re lost, wholly incapable of separating...

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Be an example, not an adviser.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t...

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

I believe that what we get out of life is what we’ve set ourselves up to get, so there’s no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices...

If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent...

I dream of a land of peace where everyone can live in harmony.I dream of a land of joywhere everyone can live without agonyI dream of a land of fairy where everyone can live with...

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman,...

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Get addicted to peace, talk about it all day and may be all night. Drink it, live it and love it. It will change the world.

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.

You never can change the reality without changing the perception.

Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and...

It’s our responsibility to be the best that we can.

You can’t guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

Accept losing but never give up the hope of winning

Change is a contact sport.

Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

You will see romance everywhere when your heart is dancing with love and joy.

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where...

Love is a heart’s feeling, there is no understanding or judging.

We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love.

The look of a smug teacher is priceless.

Love is a light; it brightens the way of life.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Love is not an imagination but a radiating light from the heart.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

Let me love and feel the joy of life.

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left...

When you wage war on the public schools, you’re attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You’re not a conservative, you’re a vandal.

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into...

Come, come everyone, come with love, come with joy, come to my heart, there is always spring, roses always smiling, soul is always singing with joy in the light of love. I am waiting, are...

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his...

I never fall in love because love is always inside me.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

I don’t care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought.

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present...

When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.