Back to The School of Life Experience 10 Quotes for Lessons from Life Julie Jordan Scott At the return of students to "halls of learning" it is also an exceptional time to assess our own process through the School of Life Experience. These quotes inspire, enlighten and hopefully will stretch your thinking in relationship to learning, lessons and education. One way to take the quotes and make them into lessons themselves is to take each quote and journal or free flow write from the quote itself. Copy the quote onto a piece of paper (Or copy and paste into a document) and simply allow your responsive thoughts to move from your mind and heart to the paper or keyboard. Lets take our School of Life Experience even deeper than we ever have before! Now Begin...... 1. "The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." Maya Angelou 2. "There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance." Elie Wiesel 3. "Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes." Henry Ward Beecher 4. The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Henry Bolingbroke 5. "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience." George Washington 6. "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education." Victor Hugo 7. "Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it." Deepak Chopra 8. "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education." Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" Walt Whitman 10. "Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself." John Dewey ________ Julie Jordan Scott is a Certified Life and Creativity Coach and founder of the Revolutionary Live Coaching Program Millionaires One By One where people across the globe meet actively, consciously and collectively build bridges to their wildest dreams with boldness, magic and power. Discover more at http://www.MillionairesOnebyOne.com