Cindy B Stephens

Trying to stay informed, not just opinionated, on a variety of community issues.

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The great aim of #education is not knowledge but action. -- Herbert Spencer #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no #education at all. ~ #Aristotle #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

#Education is the mother of leadership. Wendell Lewis Wilkie #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

No matter what ... is going on in your home or neighborhood, the person with the biggest impact on your #education is you. ~ Michelle Obama #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~ William Arthur Ward #education #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

#Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. ~ W.E.B. Du Bois #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

Perhaps the most valuable result of all #education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. – Walter Bagehot #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

#Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ~ Marian Wright Edelman #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

#Education is about the discovery of truth, not about indoctrination or regurgitation of information. A good education prompts students to think actively and critically. ~ Jeffrey Sikkenga #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

“The direction in which #education starts a man will determine his future.” ~ #Plato

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

Real #education is about helping people learn. And our job as a leader/teacher is not to tell people what we know, but to get them as excited about it as we are so that they will want to know for themselves”. ~ Kirk Weisler #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

“It's an universal law--intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate #education.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

#Education is the best provision for old age. – #Aristotle #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

There are two #educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. John Adams #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

If you think #education is expensive try ignorance. - Derek Bok #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is #education.” ~ FDR #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

#Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. ~ Albert #Einstein #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

Throughout history, #education has proven to be the vaccine for poverty and for the gaps between the haves and have-nots. - Eileen Murray #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by #education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." ~ Charlotte Brontë #quote

[Cindy B Stephens @CivicBaroness]

Real #education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. ~ Nancy Astor #quote