“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: Pieces of White Shell
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: Pieces of White Shell
John Holt (1923–1985) educator
Growing Without Schooling magazine, no. 40 (1984).
“Science is the most important thing you can study in school.”
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, 35, Associated Press, TV host decries U.S. failure to value science, math education, The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, December 10, 2000]
“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”
Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses
Source: Half Broke Horses
“The most important thing I learned in college about the rich is that they pursue hobbies”
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist
2018, "Almost Everything is Black and White" (October 2018)
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 36