“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”— John Grisham, forbes.com
“Education is about learning and about teaching and about knowing, but I think the most important piece of it is inspiring curiosity.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Immigrants were more educated than Americans in 26 states, and nearly a third of refugees have at least one degree”— The Economist, twitter.com
“The time has come for us to consider seriously how to change our way of life not through prayer or religious teaching, but through education”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“Education today needs not only to develop our intelligence, but also to support basic human values of warm-heartedness and compassion.”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“The rise of flat-Earthers in society provides some of the best evidence for the failure of our educational system.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Hope we can find space to be wrong in the pursuit of getting it right.”— Ashton Kutcher, twitter.com
“Reading books forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect, connect one historical moment with another. Reading books provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events, of the world — of life itself.”— Peggy Noonan, catholic.edu
“You must not stop reading books. That's all. If you seek a happy and interesting life, one of depth, meaning and accomplishment, you must read books.”— Peggy Noonan, catholic.edu
“Education today needs not only to develop our intelligence, but also to support basic human values of warm-heartedness and compassion.”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“It’s not important to be significant. It’s important to follow those kinds of questions that are grabbing you.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“The great thing about imagining learning as cartography, instead of imagining it as arbitrary hurdles that you have to jump over, is that you see a bit of coastline, and that makes you want to see more.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I just believe there's so much more at stake. There's such a larger opportunity. I believe that travel has the opportunity to become the most important and successful engine of political, economic, social, cultural, and educational progress and understanding in this history of modern times.”— Joe Diaz, youtube.com
“Ceasing to travel really pulls the plug on that which makes us human. Travel bridges the education and cultural gaps. It fosters shifts in perspective. It fuels curiosity, empathy, tolerance, respect, understanding.”— Joe Diaz, youtube.com
“Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?”— William Gibson, sterneck.net
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Trump or no Trump, there is an urgent need for some kind of public education program surrounding truth. Few people leaving school or college have been formally instructed in logic, and there is shockingly little public understanding of how knowledge is created.”— Joe Humphreys, irishtimes.com