The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. – Havelock Ellis
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. – Maya Angelou
In anything Ive ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I dont think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didnt sound like them at all. – Kevin Smith
You dont know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you dont have a child, you dont know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever. – Regina King
