I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a...

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational...

There is a girl. I named her love. She has a father. His name is desire. Her mother has a name, but not always the same. We call her destiny. Love calls her mommy.

Love is a drug for me and I am addicted to it.

To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.

We are the children of this community. We want love, friendship, and unity. We want peace, joy, and compassion. We love this world with great passion. This is our world; this is our sweet home. This...

God will create the best opportunity for you. To find those opportunities is your responsibility.

Knowledge is not the power; it is the potential power. Willing is not the action, but potential action.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.

Can you imagine life without a book?

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

We learn better when learning is a game.

A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently.

Good parents have good hearts to accommodate the little things that mean a lot to their children. Good parents have good hands to touch and shape the little things that mean a lot to the life of their...

Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind's endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes...

Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a price on wisdom for it can neither be bought nor sold. It should be given and accepted with no...

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

For example, Professor Morris Raphael Cohen was a very distinguished philosopher who challenged conventional wisdom in a Yiddish accent. With the diversity and poverty of its students, City College...

For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily attack of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.

Posner's group proposes that attention training should be part of the education of every child, giving a boost in learning across the board.

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not...

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a...

Deliberate practice to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an...

"Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -"

Learn, discuss, then take a walk. The essential point is that teachers must encourage personal processing time or settling time after new learning so that material can solidify.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.