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A Quote by R K Narayan on education, morons, culture, garbage, roots, and...

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I...

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A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson on hug, correction, children, teacher,...

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him! Source:  Lectures...

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A Quote by Thomas Berry on education, religion, story, cosmology, universe,...

Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our...

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A Quote by Eckhart Tolle on ego, identification, possessions, recognition,...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person...

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A Quote by Paulo Coelho on education, universities, work, and right livelihood

Most of my parents' friends and most of my parents' friends' children also have degrees.  This doesn't mean that they've managed to find the kind of work they wanted.  Not at all; they went to...

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A Quote by Nelson Mandela on education, change, and world

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Source:  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/ayaan_hirsi_ali.html Contributed by:  jodi read more

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A Quote by St. Basil the Great on god, christianity, love, education,...

The love of God is not taught.  No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else.  And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world...

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A Quote by Paulo Coelho on life, choice, education, degrees, school, and choices

Most of my friends, and most of my friends' children, also have degrees. That doesnt mean that they've managed to find the kind of work they wanted. Not at all.They went to university because someone,...

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A Quote by Paul Valéry on ignorance, education, and humility

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use...

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A Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, dialogue, education, biases,...

Even as most intellectuals and students and "educators" among us imagine they are learning to criticize and sever those prejudices and presuppositions, those biases and preconceptions are mutating like...

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