empathetic education Quotes

The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govern his actions.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.