We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.
I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
A school’s job [is] to begin education.
I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.
Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.