Lifelong Learning Part I

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
Frederic Bastiat

"No matter how much [the student] knows or how fully he has thought, he is relentlessly pushed [in discussion] until his back touches the wall of the great absolutes."
Jacques Barzun

"In the course of [our] lives…truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done."
Mortimer Adler

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine

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

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams

"...responsible leading must be learned and earned...just as virtue, which is the core of responsible leading, is earned: by living in accordance with the instructions of conscience, and by working to emulate the exemplary legacies of those we study and the active examples of those from whom we learn."
Josiah Bunting III

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
Thomas Jefferson

“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

"I believe that parents, not government, have the primary responsibility for the education
of their children."
Ronald Reagan

"This is education, the method whereby man is revealed to himself."
Calvin Coolidge

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge.”
Isaiah

“Robert Hutchins…never deviated from his devotion to [the concept] of a Socratic dialogue on the Great Books as the basis of the general education he believed essential for all citizens of a democratic republic.”
Harry S. Ashmore

"...the laws of nature are unalterably fixed by its author, and will not bend or yield to human fancy and caprice."
George Turnbull

“…happiness…is more often found with those who are most highly cultivated in their mind and character.”
Aristotle

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance given to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."
Cicero

"There can be no national greatness which does not rest upon the personal integrity of the people."
Calvin Coolidge

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time."
Sydney J. Harris

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"
Albert Einstein

“The ancient scholars studied for their own improvement. Modern scholars study to impress others.”
Confucius

"No education is complete, or even particularly valuable, unless the student uses what he or she has learned to serve the family, community, society, God."
Oliver Van DeMille

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

"Security is the chief enemy of mortals."
William Shakespeare

"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

Will Durant

"The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dread remorse when you are tempted to err: remorse is the poison of life"
Jane Eyre

“If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Jesus Christ