Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will…

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez

“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

— Henry Giroux

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

— Donald Miller

“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

— Nicholas Sparks

“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will…

— Ioannes Amos Commenius

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

— H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,…

— Anonymous

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

— Mark Twain

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did

— Anonymous

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann