"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
1. A school should not be a preparation for life.A school should be life.
2. College is a place where a student ought to learn not so much how to make a living, but how to live.
3. Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objective: education for living and educating for making a living.
4. Students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life.
5. The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
6. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives.
7. The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
8. An educated man is one who has so developed the
faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything
he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the
rights of others.
9. Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the
universe, a moment that will never be again...
And what do we teach our children? We teach them that
two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?
