Quotes and Free Thinkers

Here are a few more wonderful quotes having to do with education (or just life in general as it pertains to what education really is). It is not enough to walk blindly through life accepting limitations that are imposed on us in the public school anymore. It is becoming more and more necessary to break through convention and allow children to express their talents so that they will know what to do when the consequence of past human action comes crashing down on us (which it most certainly will at some point). It does not behoove us in this day and age to raise conformists. The hope of the future depends on original solutions and unrestrained intellect like it never has before, and there is no way to create true thinkers other than trusting children to be in charge of their own learning. The philosophers of the past understood this very well because they were free thinking, non-conformists themselves. As a result, their words ring as true today as they did tens, hundreds, or even thousands of years ago...


Valuable achievement can sprout from human society only when it is sufficiently loosened to make possible the free development of an individual's abilities--Albert Einstein

The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of--Charles H. Parkhurst

Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come--Victor Hugo

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.--Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain

J.M. Barrie - - I am not young enough to know everything

Ansel Adams - - Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Aristotle - - it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Sir Francis Bacon - - They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.


You cannot teach a crab to walk straight-- Aristophenes