People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Wherever you go, go with love, but never leave hope behind.

I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does.

To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child’s wonder and joyful heart.

Quality education is something which influence our decision making, which empowers our conscience and governs our insight, but, positively.

Freedom of thoughts are more important than any other kind of freedom.

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (…). There is a tendency (…) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I...

You alone can change the world if you want to.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf...

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

If you don’t have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them...

If you have no time to love everyone, then just love one, but don’t forget to love.

It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.

To achieve greatness, feel grateful for what you have.

In sum, then, “thinking about thinking” has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

If you want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart.

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

Life is not about tomorrow. Life is about living your fullest today.

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake...

Let’s go with what you have to get what you want.

For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, “Because they’re scared.” I used to suspect that children’s defeatism had something to do with their...

By sharing, we express our gratitude for abundance and create emptiness for receiving.

I don’t have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.

A leader is he who has a great vision and can inspire others to go along to pursue it with all great passion.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Win over the fear and adversity and prove yourself wrong.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

Fear success but not the mistakes.

It’s a good Cape Coral-centered event. Education doesn’t always have to be tedious and painful.

Failure is our teacher, not the success.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain...

Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue.

I think it’s hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they’re nineteen years old.

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society...

It is rarely possible to learn yourself fully.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

As is our enthusiasm, so is our ability.

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal that will make this world a better place for future generations.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.

You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Peace is a process of self-realization, a realization that peace resides inside us, in our inner calmness and tranquility.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one’s mind...