Educational quotes
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"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."
"The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study."
"When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself."
"Play is the answer to how anything new comes about."
"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."
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"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals."
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
"Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it."
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
"Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires."
"If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear."
"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."
"Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education."
"A very little key will open a very heavy door."
"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends."
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."
"It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically."
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
