"Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others"
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Supreme Court Justice
Read moreJohn Dewey - American Educational Reformer
“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn."
- John Dewey, American educational reformer and philosopher
Read moreNiels Bohr - Father of Quantum Mechanics
"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections."
- Niels Bohr, Father of Quantum Mechanics
Read moreAllen Ginsberg - American Poet
"My interest in reading is the profit by other men's experiences. I sometimes find (only lately) authors talking directly to me, from the bottom of their minds."
- Allen Ginsberg, American poet
Read moreFrancis Bacon - English Philosopher and Scientist
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
- Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and author
Read moreLeonardo da Vinci - Italian Renaissance Polymath
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
- Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath
Read moreHenry David Thoreau - Transcendentalist Thinker
"Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old."
- Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalist thinker and author
Read moreSeneca the Younger - Roman Stoic Philosopher
"[People who take time for philosophy] alone really live; for they are not content to be good guardians of their own lifetime only. They annex every age to their own; all the years that have gone before them are an addition to their store. Unless we are most ungrateful, all those men, glorious fashioners of holy thoughts, were born for us; for us they have prepared a way of life. By other men's labors we are led to the sight of things most beautiful that have been wrested from darkness and brought into light; from no age are we shut out, we have access to all ages, and if it is our wish, by greatness of mind, to pass beyond the narrow limits of human weakness, there is a great stretch of time through which we may roam."
- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic Philosopher
Read moreAlbert Einstein - Father of Modern Physics
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
- Albert Einstein, Father of Modern Physics
Read moreBenjamin Franklin - Founding Father of the United States
“An investment in education pays the best interest.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States
Read moreDame C. V. Wedgwood - English Historian
“An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything.”
- Dame C. V. Wedgwood, English Historian, author of The Thirty Years War (one of the best history books I have ever read)
Read moreAda Lovelace, English Mathematician, the First Programmer
"I am more determined than ever in my future plans; and I have quite made up my mind that nothing must be suffered to interfere with them. I intend to make such arrangements in town as will secure me a couple hours daily (with very few exceptions) for my studies."