If you want to change
If you want to change
If you want to change
just start with yourself,
the rest will follow.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” – Clay P. Bedford
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.“ – Marian Wright Edelman
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.“ – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” – United Negro College Fund
“The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.” – Louise L. Hay
“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.” – Katey Sagal Even
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” – Carl Jung
“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.” – Helen Mirren
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” – Vernon Howard
“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott
“I’m not a prophet. I’m not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” – Erich Fromm
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth
“One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I’ve spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I’ve always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.“ – Condoleezza Rice
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.“ – Theodore Roosevelt
“No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.“ – Bobby Scott
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.“ – Calvin Coolidge
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem
“The most important lessons lay not in what I needed to learn, but in what I first needed to unlearn.” – Jim Collins
“Unlearning is about moving away from something — letting go — rather than acquiring. It’s like stripping old paint. It lays the foundation for the new layer of fresh learning to be acquired and to stick.” – Margie Warrell
“It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.” – Martin H. Fischer
“Doubt grows with knowledge.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“People who are over-educated become risk-averse.” – Tamara Mellon
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.“ – Kofi Annan
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.“ – George Washington Carver
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.“ – Aristotle
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.“ – Robert G. Ingersoll
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.“ – Helen Keller
“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.“ – Jim Rohn
