After becoming deaf, I realized that I’d better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
Education
Education is the best provision for old age.
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people… now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.