Quotes About Perspective

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

I've had no sexual education, but I have six children.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

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

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.