Life is full of uncertainties and we can never know what life has planned for tomorrow. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of an education. My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
It facilitates your learning, increases your knowledge and enhances your skill. Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
This verification process of learning is not even taught in schools or is it being transmitted anywhere in the media. For education is both the foundation and the unifying force of our democratic way of life — it is the mainspring of our economic and social progress — it is the highest expression of achievement in our society, ennobling and enriching human life.
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. Integrated schools paved the way for integrated transportation, restaurants, and other public facilities, changing American life completely over the coming years.
73. Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. Teach your students that it’s cool to be a bookworm with these positive quotes about reading. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.