EDUCATION

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -Yogi Berra

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. -Ron Wild

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -John Webster

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. -G.K. Chesterton

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. -Yiddish proverb

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams [Last Chance to See]

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. -Heinrich Heine Almansor

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. -Arthur Ashe

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. -Mary Catherine Bateson

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -J. Bronowski [The Ascent of Man]

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. -Albert Camus

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerlessmeans to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -Paulo Freire

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. -Peter Cochrane

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, \ And there are words not made with lungs. -Crashaw

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. -H.W. Dodds

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. -Thomas A. Edison

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -Albert Einstein

There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. -Whitney M. Young

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. -Ron Wild

Kindness is the greatest wisdom. -- Found in a fortune cookie by Jerome Goggin

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