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Education & Youth
“Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.”
“The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.”
“One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”
“Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.”
“One ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk.”
“The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.”
“If I can get some young men of heart and energy, I shall revolutionize the whole country.”
“We may read books, hear lectures, and talk miles, but experience is the one teacher, the one eye-opener. It is best as it is.”
“Do you think you can teach even a child? You cannot. The child teaches himself. Your duty is to afford opportunities and to remove obstacles.”
“I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant.”
“My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.”
“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind is the ideal of education.”
“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.”
“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”
“If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere.”
“I have a strong hatred for child-marriage.”
“It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.”
“The first duty is to educate the people.”
“Without real sympathy we can never teach well.”
“It is culture of the heart that we want.”
“I look upon religion as the innermost core of education.”
“It is culture that withstands shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge.”
“Individuality is my motto. I have no ambition beyond training individuals up.”
“What we want are brave young men who will work, not tomfools.”
“If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.”
“The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow.”
“It is best to work among the youth in whom lies our hope.”
“My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come across anywhere.”
“Why not give the soul what it wants? We have to have music.”
“It is good to be born a child, but bad to remain a child.”