Education Quotes - Page 76

When the moon kisses the stas in the silence with her lights of love, my heart dances with ecstasy and beauty of life.

Education does not exist for the benefit of students or for the benefit of their parents. It's exists for the benefit of social order. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from education.

The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should.... Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical education of children will remain at best a pathetic compromise.

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

My love is for you life after life, for infinite time, my love is for you, forever.

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind’s reflection.

There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.

Love as if you are living just to love. Live as if your life depends on love.

I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from its nightmares, my dad who was a good man, the best man I’d ever known, who, along with my uncle, I wanted to honor by teaching military kids—my dad, the only one who I would believe if he would just tell me I could be good, too, that I could do right by my students, because for sure they were going to suffer. It’s just cause and effect. We’re at war. The military fights wars. I teach military kids. I’d never served, but now I could make a difference. I just needed my dad to tell me what to do, to tell me I was good enough to get it done.

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind.

Think as if failure is not a possibility.

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading....From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable. Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved?

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection.

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

On a certain level, homeschooling is all about socialization. Whatever the teaching methods used in school or homeschool, it is ultimately the social environment itself that distinguishes homeschooling from conventional school. This social environment includes the nature and quantity of peer interaction; parental proximity; solitude; relationships with adults, siblings, older children, younger children, and the larger community; the ways in which the children are disciplined and by whom; and even the student-teacher ratio and the overall environment where the children spend their time.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.

Fear is the killer of a great future life.

The love to know is the passion for reading.

To live a worthy life, just love. Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile.

Education is the light which lets us see the universe in a better way. It often lets us understand her incredible beauty.

If life is a flower, then love is the beauty of that flower.

The more you give, the more you will have to give.

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

Knowledge is life.

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy!

Literature is life.

Raging over something that is invaluable can portray an individual's sense of immaturity and lack of understanding about his or her actual needs for survival.

Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.

With great enthusiasm, pursue your dreams.

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educated, Liberal men have been about that foolish affair at Geneva. Men who have any leisure, any gifts, any resources, have no right to stifle their consciences with that degree of imposture.

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.

Having a system for thinking deeper can provide greater insight into solving everyday problem. Such a system is shared in my book, Medical Investigation 101.

Experience is a necessary education.

The simplest description is that Unschooling means a way of bringing up children using free play and child-directed activity to develop the child's own individual talents and creativity by supportively following up the child's own interests – without coercion, compulsion, manipulation, regimentation, constant testing and grading and rank-ordering, or top-down authoritarianism.

Love as a flower loves the morning sun.Love with kindness, expect no return.

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to college before they are intellectually and morally prepared for the indoctrination-rather-than-education they will receive there. Therefore, prepare them morally and intellectually and, if possible, do not send them to college right after high school. Let them work for a year, or perhaps travel (for example, given the antipathy to Israel on campuses, a trip to Israel would be both morally clarifying and maturing). The younger the student, the less life experience and maturity they have, the more they are likely to embrace the rejection of your values.

Keep hope alive to be happy.

In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

Smiles are very contagious so infect everyone with your smiles.

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

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