Quotes About Empowerment

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Many lives and limbs have been lost, McCandless, by excluding women from the more intricate medical arts.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

El Estado es para los hombres y no los hombres para el Estado. Como deber primero del Estado veo la protección del individuo, así como ofrecerle la posibilidad de desarrollar una personalidad creativa.

El mundo no está amenazado por las malas personas sino por aquellos que permiten la maldad

A un hombre interiormente libre, y escrupuloso, se le puede destruir, pero no se puede hacer de él ni un esclavo ni una herramienta ciega.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Persist at using the scientific method of questioning and challenging your irrational Beliefs until you begin to give them up, increase your effectiveness, and enjoy yourself more.

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.