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"Apply yourself. Get all the education you
can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
-- Lee Iacocca
"It has always seemed strange to me that in
our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure
of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be
able to be caught up into the world of thought-- that is to be educated. "
-- Edith Hamilton
"If you are planning for a year, sow
rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. "
-- Chinese proverb
You can tell whether a man is
clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his
questions.
(Naguib Mahfouz)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness
To an opponent, tolerance
To a friend, your heart
To your child, a good example
To your father, deference
To your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you
To yourself, respect
To all men, charity.
(Benjamin Franklin)
``Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners,
contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders, and they love to
chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants. They no
longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teacher.''
----Written by Socrates in 400 BC.
"Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don't. "
-- Pete Seeger
Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring, published in 1962):
"It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. The rains have become an instrument to bring down from the atmosphere the deadly products of atomic explosions. Water, which is probably our most important natural resource, is now used and re-used with incredible recklessness.
Now, I truly believe, that we in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."
"Education is what survives
when what has been learnt has been forgotten. "
-- B. F. Skinner