Quotes about Growth

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

Education must precede motivation.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool. I am willing to express a theory. I am willing to admit I'm afraid. I'm willing to contradict something I've said before. I'm willing to have a knee-jerk reaction, even a wrong one. I'm willing to apologize. I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.

God is going to reveal me as a flawed human being as fast as he can and he's going to enjoy it because it will force me to grapple with real intimacy.