If we had in this room a hundred teachers good teachers from good schools and asked them to define the word education there would be very little general agreement.
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows how much he has still to learn.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another his education is incomplete.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
TRUE a little learning is a dangerous thing but it still beats total ignorance.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives little stories. I thought 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.
Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination and a little bit of luck.
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
Ever since we were little we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
It's weird to say but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her I see a miracle.
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
I'm not certain but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future and she had dreams that came true.
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
In my dreams I could be a Princess and that's what I was. Like most little girls I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.