Sunday, March 11, 2012

When minds really think..


“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
Fran Lebowitz
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
St. Augustine of Hippo
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
Jane Austen
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C.S. Lewis
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Robert Frost
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
Nelson Mandela
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius

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