W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Bad Religion's tradition has always been to try and provoke people but hopefully lead them to a better sense of who they are and what they stand for. That's supposed to make them feel better.

Education made us what we are.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.