As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups _ adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.
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The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.
Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.
Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens.Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.
Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.
Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.
Education doesn__ make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don__ become happy just because we__e free _ if we are. Or because we__e been educated _ if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance _ the confidence _ to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.
My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.
whenthings turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace
Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.
With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
We can find the answers will seek in books.
Keep reading, Keep learning.
Is there an end to learning?
Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.