Quotes About Growth

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Education is the great engine to personal development.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

If children have interests, then education happens.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.