"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

Education, Peace, Learning, History

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"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Education, School, Creativity, Irony, Discipline

"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Regret

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Reading, Writing, Expectation, Truth

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Education, Mother, People, College, Ignorance

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Respect, Choice, Key

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Education, Virtue, Children, First, Importance

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Education, Teaching, Knowledge, Secrets, Learning

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Education, History, Race

"I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Education, Science, Future, Curiosity

"Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Education, Graduate, Study, Determined

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end."

Explore more quotes by Rasheed Ogunlaru

"Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be."

"In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding."

"Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit."

"Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind."

"Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation."

"Don't value your self worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure your success do it not by what you have gained personally but what you have contributed to a wider benefit."

"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."

"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."

"All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding."

"It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that."