FROM ACORN TO THE TREE¸ 371. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -- Theodore Roosevelt 318. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -- Nelson Mandela 291. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. -- John F. Kennedy 286. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. --Thomas Jefferson 275. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -- Victor Hugo 276. He who opens a school door, opens a prison -- Roger Dupuy 271. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. -- William Hazlitt 225. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -- Samuel Coleridge 251. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. -- Robert Frost 217. If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. -- Chinese proverb 213. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. -- William Jennings Bryan 632. "While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."-Angela Schwindt 628. "You never know when you're making a memory." -Rickie Lee Jones 613. "A great teacher never strives to explain his vision--he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." - Reverend R. Inman 603. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."- Henry Brooks Adams 561. "Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."- Ron Wild 558. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Thoreau On Children and Mental Illness "Children think they're grown up, strong- w/out limitations. They become overconfident and cocky in their omnipotence, then, (if parents don't get in God's way) kids run into the reality that they dont have as much power as they thought they have to make some adjustments to life and they grow from the experience; they adapt to reality-which the definition of mental health, rather than demanding that reality adapt to them-which is the definition of mental illness." [paraphrase] John Townesend and Henry Cloud-Boundaries With Kids On Teaching--John Steinbeck "It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one must know is the most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and most revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain, and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. School is not easy, and for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a teacher. Three real teaehers in a lifetime is the very best of luck. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three had these three things in common-they all loved what they were doing. They did not tell-they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their infuence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious. 130. Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. - Benjamin Franklin 131. Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. -Aldous Huxley 132. Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sydney Harris 133. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt 134. College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller 135. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.-Mark Twain 136. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.-B.F. Skinner 137. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.-Malcolm Forbes 139. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.-Russell Green 140. Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.-G. M. Trevelyan 141. His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen 142. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.-Will Durant 144. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.--Victor Hugo 145. There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.--Will Rogers 146. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.--Benjamin Franklin 147. Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. -James Madison 148. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.--Henry Brooks Adams 150. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.--Chinese Proverb 151. Only the educated are free.--Epictetus 152. Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -Ambrose Bierce 153. Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.--Martin H. Fischer 154. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.--Edward Everett 155. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.--Aristotle 156. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.--John Fitzgerald Kennedy 157. My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.--George Bernard Shaw 158. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.--Anatole France 159. Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.--Horace Mann 160. Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. --Benjamin Disraeli 161. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.--Elbert Hubbard 162. Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.--John Dewey 163. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.--Theodore Roosevelt 164. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.--Oscar Wilde 165. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.--Thomas Jefferson 537. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards - Anatole France 520. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. -Austin Phelps 517. "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." -Dalai Lama 471. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 536 209. Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -- Henry Brougham 204. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok 243. What did you ask at school today? -- Richard Fenyman 349. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -- Pablo Picasso 167. Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.--Frank Crane 168. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. --Ralph Waldo Emerson 169. The world is run by C students.--Anon. 170. No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. --Lee Rudolph 547. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. 542. Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom - Merry Browne