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"I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself."
"Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."
"It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree."
"Art is a process, not a product."
"A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber."
"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
"One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work."
"Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear."
"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."
"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"
"All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are scientifically illiterate. That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious."
"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."
"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
"There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any Way.... A person should study as they see fit."
"All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room."