User:Mokurai/Quotes

Shakyamuni Buddha

• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Kalama Sutta

Socrates

• I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Aristotle

• All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses.

• In modern times there are opposing views about the practice of education. There is no general agreement about what the young should learn either in relation to virtue or in relation to the best life; nor is it clear whether their education ought to be directed more towards the intellect than towards the character of the soul.... And it is not certain whether training should be directed at things useful in life, or at those conducive to virtue, or at non-essentials.... And there is no agreement as to what in fact does tend towards virtue. Men do not all prize most highly the same virtue, so naturally they differ also about the proper training for it.

Epictetus

• Only the educated are free.

Simon Bolivar

• The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

Pablo Picasso

• I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Gandhi

• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
  

[and then they claim it was their idea all along Mokurai 01:08, 14 December 2008 (UTC)]

• You must be the change you seek.

Albert Einstein

• It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.

• Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Robert A. Heinlein

• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert Frost

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.

Two Tramps In Mudtime

Margaret Mead

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

B. F. Skinner

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Stephen Jay Gould

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. — The Mismeasure of Man