Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

-- Dōgen

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only a borrowed plumage.

-- D. T. Suzuki

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be at home in oneself.

-- Michel de Montaigne

Act! Act! That is what we are here for.

-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Despair is a sickness of the self, a sickness unto death.

-- Søren Kierkegaard