Quotes on “initiative”

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.