Being able to “go beyond the information” given to “figure things out” is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things...

We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves.

The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development.

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their ‘inferiors’? They would need to shed...

Kids don’t always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Every flower is a love of a dancing sun, ready to kindle your heart.

It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning...

Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Appreciate all of life’s beauty and express the deepest gratitude for all the abundance.

He said, speaking more to himself than to me: ‘It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.’And do you...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Today’s pain will bring tomorrow’s gain.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important.

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do...

Today is the most important day to start a new beginning. It will open the door of opportunity and reveal the holding.

If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched hermaybe you should take a looks at your hands.

Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Be courageous, but humble,passionate, but simple,have beliefs, but be flexible.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn’t know.

Success is a way of life, which progressively expands your joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

When we will learn to seethere is no you and me.You and me becoming we,in the world peace will be.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it’s a shame (Indiana) won’t do more to ensure...

To find peace, find the love and understanding.

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

Peace is not the absence of war,but the presence of love and care.Peace is not the absence of agony,but the presence of joy of harmony.Peace is not the absence of poverty,but the presence of love...

How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?’ Taro asked. ‘Friends who would betray you to your death. People in authority who use their power to perform the most unnatural acts. People hating...

Peace is bald eagle Flying and flying over the treesIn search for a spotUnder the blue sky To build her nest to care.

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody...

To change the world, see the world through your heart, world will change along with your perception.

School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.

There is no right or wrong.There is no weak or strong.There is only you.There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.There is no beast or beauty.There is no...

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Your future will be determined not by your education or bank account, but by your optimism and attitude.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

It is painful those feelings of pain,but accept it with love to see the gain.

Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht...

Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder.

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a...