“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela [ President of South Africa, Political Leader, Philanthropist 1918 – 2013]
“To develop a complete mind: study the science of art; study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo da Vinci [Visual Artist, Scientist, Mathematician 1452–1519]
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr. [Physician, Poet, Teacher 1809-1894]
“Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand; imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein [Physicist 1879-1955]
“You really can’t do anything without the idea.” – Joseph V. Canzani [Artist, Educator, Arts Administrator 1915-2008]
“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to discover it in himself.” – Galileo Galilei [Physicist, Astronomer 1564-1642]
“I have things in my head that are not like what anybody has taught me…so natural to my way of being and thinking.” – Georgia Totto O’Keeffe [Visual Artist, Educator 1887-1986]
”Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck [Psychiatrist 1936-2005]
“Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [Minister, Civil Rights Activist 1929-1968]
“For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.” – Oprah Winfrey [TV Host & Movie Producer, Actress, Philanthropist 1954-]
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass [Author, Orator, Activist 1818-1895]