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Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.
Sep 10, 2025
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Education forms the common mind.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.