Quotes About Independence

You've got to learn in life, you've got to learn it quick and keep it for the rest of your life: pull your own strings, and have no puppetmaster – and – habits – are – puppetmasters.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

Learning how to learn on his own proved one of the most important lessons of his life.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

I believe in local control of education.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.