Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Evil is whatever distracts.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.