"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

Education, People, Flowers, Giving

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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

John Green, American Author

Education, Libraries, Children, Ambition, Service

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Education, Body, Habits, Machine

"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Education, Past, Future, Study, Learning

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Education, Books, Chance, First, May

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Education, Ability

"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Reform, Change, Weather

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Education, Learning, Law, Struggle, Persistence

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

Education, Study, Sincerity, Learning, Importance

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Education, Work, Living

"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Education, Literacy, Youth, Culture, Media

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"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."

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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

Age, Aspirations, Tension

"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."

Education, Now, Schools, Today

"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."

Courage, Strength, Eloquence, Judgment

"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."

Man, Men, People, Belief, Community

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

Society, Excellence, Philosophy, Theories

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

Talent, Poverty

"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."

Government, May

"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."

Creativity, Questioning, Rest

"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""

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