Quotes about Empowerment

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they ahd been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them.

Worship empowers serving; serving expresses worship. Godliness requires a disciplined balance between the two.

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

No one is free until all of us are free.

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.