Epictetus Quotes

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

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

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.