“We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?”
"I am what I have become."
- Sidney Poitier
Self-awareness
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
- Sidney Poitier
Integrity
"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
- Sidney Poitier
Integrity
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."
- Sidney Poitier
Personal Growth
"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."
- Sidney Poitier
Personal Growth
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education