Thomas Edison

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how to close they were to success when they gave up.

Jeanette Winterson

If people aren’t educated, they can’t question. If they can’t question, they can’t change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

Arundhati Roy

Every strategy for real social change – land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources…. -has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.

Oprah Winfrey

“For every one of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.”

Albert Einstein

“The value of college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”

Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of the other people’s thinking.   Don’t let the noise of the others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and…

Derek Bok

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. The purpose scarcely requires justification – Derek Bok –

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