Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Only the educated are free.

Choice is an American value.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Education is freedom.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Education liberates a woman.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.