In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
We must find a way, or we will make one.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
And we know these times will never fade, hold them close, our youth is remembered forever...
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.