Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Quote by Parker J Palmer

Topics: Identity Quotes, Life Quotes, Listening Quotes, Work Quotes

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming...

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming...

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of...

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of...

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery...

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery...

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

Her education was erratic, though she learned to add by counting the nightly box-office takings.

Her education was erratic, though she learned to add by counting the nightly box-office takings.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be...

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be...

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters...

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters...

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by...

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by...

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men...

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men...

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty...

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty...

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient...

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient...

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to...

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to...

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just...

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just...

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the...

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the...

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without...

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without...

"Mediocre teachers tend to talk mostly about teaching. exemplary teachers talk almost exclusively about learning."