Education for Real Life

“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.”
C.S. Lewis

"Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value."
Stephen R. Covey

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge-broad, deep knowledge-is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low."
Helen Keller

"Father, I knew, put an almost religious importance on education. He himself had had to stop school early to go to work in the watch shop and...had gone on to teach himself history, theology, and literature in five languages..."
Corrie ten Boom

"Truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once." Julius Ceasar
William Shakespeare

"Few love to hear the sins they love to act." Pericles
William Shakespeare

"For all find what they truly seek." The Last Battle
CS Lewis

"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching." Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That’s absolute nonsense. In one year…I read twenty-five books while waiting for people.”
Louis L'Amour

“Whoever passes by what is over his head condemns his head to its present low altitude.”
Mortimer J. Adler