c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
The burden of information often makes us blind wisdom opens our eyes. 
— Debasish Mridha
If the teachers and the parents do not believe that the child can cross the hump and get into the steep part of the S—curve, they may as well not try: The teacher ignores the children who have fallen behind and the parent stops taking interest in their education. But this behavior creates a poverty trap even where none exists in the first place.
— Abhijit V. Banerjee
If you are still breathing, do not stop learning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it.
— Debasish Mridha
I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.
— William James, The Gospel of Relaxation
Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
[Today's high schoolers are required to read] a couple of Shakespeare plays...the couple of Shakespeare plays function as an inoculation – that is, you get exposed to 'half-dead Shakespeare virus', and it keeps you from ever loving Shakespeare again, your whole life long. It would be much better if they didn't do that at all!Because [the students] have no linguistic preparation for it, and no cultural or historical preparation for it. They've not been reading English poetry, so the language strikes them as completely bizarre […] and they have no historical place to put it, so they don't know what's going on. All they know is that they're 'supposed to like it'.
— Anthony M. Esolen
The worth of a book is infinite.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education gives light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God's greatest gift to mankind is our intellect. Even for those of you who are not of the faithful, the sheer logic alone cannot be denied. Education lifts a people to greater ability and achievement.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
How can we stop learning, if we still have breath?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature gives great light and great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature is light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.
— Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
Perhaps more surprising, even the rich in developing countries also lag. For example, in Indonesia, the richest quintile has scores around 450--less than the 500 for the poorest quintile in Korea or the same as the poorest quintile in UK. So in poor countries, the richest are still getting a mediocre education, and the poor cannot be said to be getting any education at all.
— Lant Pritchett, The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning
The burning lamp is found in reading books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Study to learn, do not study to pass.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih, Latest Proverbs
A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.
— Debasish Mridha
I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you don’t have a teacher, don’t worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature.
— Debasish Mridha
True education is the ultimate secret of a successful life.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is the key to the door of opportunity.
— Debasish Mridha
Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating.
— Debasish Mridha
Your universe grows when you are learning.
— Debasish Mridha
To be an educator, teach and keep learning.
— Debasish Mridha
Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.
— Debasish Mridha
Human destiny depends on depth of education.
— Debasish Mridha
We learn better when learning is a game.
— Debasish Mridha
The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education.
— Debasish Mridha
Give it all you can.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be courageous enough to learn from failures and bold enough to begin anew.
— Debasish Mridha
My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.
— Debasish Mridha
I love buying books to create my sacred library.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is stimulates self discovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I can escape to the blissful realms between the pages of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education gives you the power to think rationally, think better, and be productive in every act.
— Debasish Mridha
To educate man is to give him a liberty for life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is the key to liberty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a sacred cost for everything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Reading is a pleasurable paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
frustration has flared up over the Common Core initiative, involving the implementation of national reading and maths standards for primary and secondary school children. The Gates Foundation played a central role in bringing the standards to fruition. Spending over $233 million to back the standards, the foundation dispersed money liberally to both conservative and progressive interest groups. The two major teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, each received large donations, as did the US Chamber of Commerce. Gates himself suggested that a benefit of the standards is that they open avenues towards increasing digital learning. In 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to load Pearson's Common Core classroom material onto Microsoft's Surface tablet. Previously, the iPad was the classroom frontrunner; the Pearson partnership helps to make Microsoft more competitive.
— Linsey McGoey
A student must be humbled to trained by teacher.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to be creative than curious.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Concentrate and complete the journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The mind is the greatest sacred paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can fly as high as you can.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to work harder to achieve your goals
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am obsessed with reading and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.
— John Taylor Gatto
The most important subject in the curriculum in the future years will be how to love ourselves and be content.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who can read and write, but do we have a tool which can share the stats about out how many educated illiterates we have in our society.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
Reading leads to good character development.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Qualifications do not always define a true education. Qualifications are like obtaining a valuable candle while a true education is the essence of light that the candle will reflect. The ultimate purpose of qualifications is to find a great job, and the ultimate purpose of education is to create a great life.
— Debasish Mridha
You cannot teach a person who knows everything.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart. 
— Debasish Mridha
Grade is only a number. We are greater than numbers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can build your strength, If you read enough books!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I wonder how many books you have read?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Read enough books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I build my world with the pages of a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no substitute for education.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-study is the key to success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You must work hard to get what you want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I read and write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you believe you can, you can achieve your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stay focus. Stay focus. Stay focus on the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am still young to keep learning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What will my world be without books?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love""Period
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.
— J.R. Rim
Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.
— J.R. Rim
Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation.
— Debasish Mridha
It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.
— Debasish Mridha
Is there any smooth path to success? No. You must learn to travel on many rugged roads to find the straight path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life.
— Debasish Mridha
The passion for self improvement is the love for reading, learning and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The love to know is the passion for reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My desire is to embrace, to explore, to dance, to hug, to inspire, to know, to learn, to love, to read, to search, to seek, to share, to write……!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have wander in many minds through the pages of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It feels great to read but greater to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is great to read. You will discover wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we first arrived at the school we received an extended introduction detailing what a wonderful place it was and how lucky we were to be there. But no one explained exactly why we were to be there. Yes, we understood the general objective was to accumulate knowledge, although learning Shakespeare and algebra did not strike us as particularly helpful to our future lives. I've yet to meet a single person who found a use for algebra in later life. The excuse proffered was that it developed intelligence. It struck me as extremely unintelligent not to give us the opportunity to study subjects that would be of practical use as well as develop our intelligence. I learned Boyle's law and Ohm's law parrot fashion without having a clue as to their meaning, yet left the school five years later incapable of changing a fuse or wiring a three-pin plug. Understandably, we formed the general impression that we were there for the same reason we were sent to Sunday school – to keep us out of mischief until we were old enough to work.
— Allen Carr
Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.
— Debasish Mridha
True education gives a child wings to fly in his imaginative blue sky.
— Debasish Mridha
The purpose of education is to open the windows of the mind.
— Debasish Mridha
True education should enhance the power of the imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
You can go as far as God takes you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I do not know everything. I ought to keep learning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am young to learn.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wisdom is obtained by the revere of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It takes many years to lay the solid foundation for final success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
At the core of the problem is an obsolete factory model of schooling that sorts, tracks, tests, and rejects or certifies working-class children as if they were products on an assembly line. The purpose of education, I said, cannot be only to increase the earning power of the individual or to supply workers for the ever-changing slots of the corporate machine. Children need to be given a sense of the 'unique capacity of human beings to shape and create reality in accordance with conscious purposes and plans.
— Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
The path of genius is free, and its own
— William Hazlitt
Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma,tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes.
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
If each of us could help one orphan to build his/her capacity, and academic background rather than giving them money or food, then no family will sufferer without guardian.
— Sbr Khan
We live in a society where every business has a huge scope. Even if you open a shop selling snakes people will buy it. Thinking they will direct them to their neighbors house.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
A castle of defense, a bastion of mightA fort where the wise teach the young to fightAn armory of weapons, sharp as hooksAre wrapped in leather and shelved as books
— Shannon Hale, The Forgotten Sisters
It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?
Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.
— Diane Ravitch, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.
— E.M. Forster
The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
As human beings, are we meant to develop as individuals serving only our own needs or also serving the needs of others? Do we aspire to develop as critically thinking, creative,innovative, humane people, or do we just want to think of ourselves as members of a specific nation and culture? Freedom allows choice and liberal education advocates for a specific choice: that the purpose of freedom is to enable creative, critically thinking,caring individuals to build healthy societies that serve universal (not just parochial) ends.
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
Not one thought entered my head that did not seem disloyal. I was ashamed, seeing their pride close up, as if for the first time, at how little I had accomplished, how much I had failed to do at St. Paul's. Somewhere in the last two years I had forgotten my mission. What had I done, I kept thinking, that was worthy of their faith? How had I helped my race? How had I prepared myself for a meaningful future? ... They were right: only a handful of us got this break. I wanted to shout at them that I had squandered it. Now that it's all over, hey, I'm not your girl! I couldn't do it.
— Lorene Cary, Black Ice
PhD is possible at any age!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.
— Lorene Cary, Black Ice
As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality,is needed in our educational systems.
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr., Teach Them To Challenge Authority: Educating for healthy societies
The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.
— Rachelle Doorley
Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr., Teach Them To Challenge Authority: Educating for healthy societies
They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr., Teach Them To Challenge Authority: Educating for healthy societies
Constructively challenging authority requires the basic habits of mind a liberal education seeks to instill: the ability to frame the essential questions; to think critically, analytically, and ethically about the problems those questions identify; and to respond effectively, creatively, and wisely to the implications of the analysis. It requires not only an ability to appreciate the complexity of a problem but also to identify its essence in order to achieve effective, just, and fair conclusions.
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.
— Gregory S. Prince, Jr., Teach Them To Challenge Authority: Educating for healthy societies
Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.
— Leah C. Fowler
It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves.
— Jill Telford
The best antidote to the woes of the world is the right education! The world is full of several woes because education has not yet arrested them. The world is full of tricksters because education has not yet educated them. The world is full of ill health because education has not yet presented the best panacea. The world is full of depression because education is not entertaining the scholars. The world is full of several deviations because education is watching without taking action. When the right education arises with the right lessons, wrong education vanishes with wrong lessons!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.
— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and the whole world.
— Amit Ray
The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius.
— Michael Meade
If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.
— Erin Merryn, An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law
Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.
— Sanchita Pandey
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century
Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential.
— Matthew T.  Cross, The Resume Design Book: How to Write a Resume in College & Influence Employers to Hire You
She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
— Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
You can learn at any age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.
— Betty  Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life.
— Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure
If it's really education you want for Nathan,' Buell said, 'have him read the papers, so he'll know what's going on in the world, and why. Teach him to be interested in everything he doesn't understand - interested enough to find out about it from books or people that aren't afraid to tell the truth.
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.
— Jasmin Darznik, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.
— John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book
Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.
— Michael Anthony, The Year in San Fernando
He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher – which is a stout lever to raw mass.
— John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book
If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.
— Noam Chomsky, Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian
A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M" is silent.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
High school will probably be better. I mean, some kids will still be jerks, but it's not so bad if you have at least one good friend. Someone who gets you.
— Robin Stevenson, The World Without Us
Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Without books, the world will be void.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Take one child, limitless dreams, unlimited potential, pure innocence and a sponge-like brain. Force them by law to spend at least ten years of their precious youth being force-fed the most useless information. Constantly reminding them that they’re only as good as their grades in a system that teaches useless mind-numbing subjects and claims to confirm our intellect with repetition and random memory tests. I didn’t give a flying fuck about the square route of the number nine or the speed of sound; I just so desperately wanted to know the basics. Happiness, love, the things that we need in our lives; the things that help us to find confidence in ourselves, our ability and our dreams.
— K.A. Hill, The Winners' Guide
Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
— Walter Dean Myers
Correct teaching brings out human excellence.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
You can develop your talents to the highest level.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Educate yourself to the highest degree.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Possibilities exist for you, to educate yourself, to the highest degree.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education enlightens our minds to see the world with new lights.
— Debasish Mridha
The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Questions open the mind answers shut it down. 
— Debasish Mridha
Read great books and be great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational.
— Debasish Mridha
If we can teach everyone how to calm their minds, this world will see peace.
— Debasish Mridha
The world of book is the stream of souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is the freedom of wisdom , knowledge and understanding. But been educated does not guarantee success in life, but it's the key to everlasting life.
— Bada Aderibigbe rasak
I am passionate learner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Education gives light, life and liberty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
One reads for oneself and for strangers.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A wise master teaches.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Liberate yourself from any mental captivity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self education is the key to self liberation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Enlightenment is the key to empowerment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The great mentor is master builder of great students.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Begin to read, write and think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This is stupid. There's work to be done. Tomorrow tens of thousands of us are going to take to the streets and demand fair access to education, and my smashed little heart shouldn't matter. But it does. The whole world is changing, and I just want to be the kind of girl who gets taken in somebody's arms.
— Laurie Penny
You grow by educating yourself to be more aware and more conscious.
— Debasish Mridha
The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is the greatest gift to enlightenment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth.
— Debasish Mridha
In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.
— Debasish Mridha
The best investment for poverty elimination is education.
— Debasish Mridha
People think of education as something that they can finish. And what’s more, when they finish, it’s a rite of passage. You’re finished with school. You’re no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school - reading books, having ideas, asking questions - that’s kid’s stuff. Now you’re an adult, you don’t do that sort of thing any more.You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning. If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested. If you enjoy learning, there’s no reason why you should stop at a given age. People don’t stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.What’s exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it’s time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There’s only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it.
— Isaac Asimov
A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential.
— Debasish Mridha
She was too well-trained to panic.
— Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn.
— Debasish Mridha
The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information.
— Debasish Mridha
Wisdom comes from education and experience—not from age.
— Debasish Mridha
Getting an education is the best journey to unfold your own beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning.
— Debasish Mridha
For success, attitude is often more important than education.
— Debasish Mridha
[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.
— Debasish Mridha
We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.
— Debasish Mridha
True education creates a new reality for humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.
— H.G. Wells
...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.
— John Wood, Creating Room to Read
A delight to read is a great treasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Passion for books is pleasurable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.
— Louise Philippe Dulay
The value of any education cannot be found in a test score. Education’s value is fully realized only after what is learned becomes useful to the learner.
— Leif Kurth
Kelli Farrell talks about the difference between girls and boys who struggle to get through high school: "Girls, especially those whose moms are head of household, get the message that men come and go, that they're going to have to take care of themselves and their kids. They're ready for the opportunity to step up. By the last year or two in high school, many boys have already steeled themselves for failure. They've checked out intellectually, mentally, and emotionally.
— Peg Tyre, The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun. Children may be innately motivated to make friends, acquire status, hone motor skills, and explore the physical world, but they are not necessarily motivated to adapt their cognitive faculties to unnatural tasks like formal mathematics. A family, peer group, and culture that ascribe high status to school achievement may be needed to give a child the motive to persevere toward effortful feats of learning whose rewards are apparent only over the long term.
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instructions needed. They understood things in a real, not theoretical, way. They seemed not to care about their grades.
— Alice Sebold
Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.
— Louis B. Wright
Pursue your dreams with all diligence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.
— Debasish Mridha
The Mother Thing makes our world.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower. Rather, education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved.
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex
— Glenn Hefley
My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".
— John Wood, Creating Room to Read
More depended on the student than on the school.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Education opens the door for an extraordinary life.
— Debasish Mridha
Education enlightens you to see the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind.
— Debasish Mridha
An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is the light in the darkness of ignorance.
— Debasish Mridha
Education helps you to be what you really want to be.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is the light switch for the mind. You have to turn it on to see the world in your own way.
— Debasish Mridha
To find a focus, learn to love and dream.
— Debasish Mridha
College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Best way to learn is by reflecting and emulating.
— Debasish Mridha
Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy.
— Debasish Mridha
The only thing we wanted our young organization to give was an opportunity. We would say to children and to their families: "If you are willing to work hard and make sacrifices and think long term, then Room to Read is the best organization for you. If you're looking for a handout, then you should look elsewhere.
— John Wood, Creating Room to Read
We had a policy of "no looking back". Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions."Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work.
— John Wood
EVERYONE NEED EDUCATION,ITS THE NEED OF A NATION,IN IT IS FUTURE'S FOUNDATION,IT LEADS TO HEARTS ASPIRATION,AND TOMORROWS INSPIRATION.
— merlin8thomas
One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.
— H.W. Brands
We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist.
— Lennox D.Lampkin
Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You will find the reality of life by reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The more you read, the more you will love to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are sacred wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you
— Linda Cardillo, Across the Table
Reading is my breath.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There is no great companion like a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Renew your mind more often by reading variety of books
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A book is a sacred gift.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A life without books is empty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Make time to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The pleasure of reading is indescribable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Educate thyself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Science is a careful investigation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open.
— —Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness.
— Jay Griffeths
People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.
— Amit Kalantri
Wisdom is worth more than gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With conscious effort, you can be a reader.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
College is not important, knowledge is
— Abhishek Mishra
College is not important, Knowledge is
— meamabhishek (Abhishek Mishra)
The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.
— Anonymous
Passion lights the fire in every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Be driven by your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness … , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference … that was only … pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether.
— Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
The strength of a country derives from the educational levels of the individuals in that nation.
— Debasish Mridha
Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.
— Debasish Mridha
Self-knowledge is the greatest education.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.
— Debasish Mridha