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(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been... More
... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest... More
... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their... More
... every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons. More
... often in the heat of noonday, leaning on a hoe, looking across valleys at the mountains, so... More
... the word “education” has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of... More
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty... More
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those... More
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not... More
A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive
acquaintance with English literature,... More
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium... More
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at... More
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. More
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical... More
A good education is another name for happiness. More
A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating... More
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders... More
A knowledge of the Globe and its various inhabitants, however slight ... has a kindred effect... More
A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, “I... More
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price. More
A noble company gathered to develop a society that would create harmony, love, and usefulness.... More
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we... More
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine. More
A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ... More
A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. More
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid,... More
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the... More
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a... More
Again the ancient, meaningless
Abstractions of the educated mind. More
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no... More
all afternoon
Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
Crescendo, and... More
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. More
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of “Western... More
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the... More
An eminent teacher of girls said, “the idea of a girl’s education, is, whatever qualifies... More
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become... More
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill... More
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a... More
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. More
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the... More
As for the graces of expression, a great thought is never found in a mean dress; but ... the nine... More
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste... More
As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about... More
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen,... More
At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a... More
At first, people stood along the schoolchildren’s path and asked them anxiously, “Tell me, my... More
At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of... More
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools.... More
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal,... More
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain... More
Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to... More
Bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterward they make of them honey, which is all... More
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant.... More
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the... More
But in a hundred high schools and colleges, this warfare against common-sense still goes on.... More
But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more... More
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing,... More
But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of... More
But this fully answered John’s purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly... More
But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and... More
By the “mud-sill” theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any... More
Can rules or tutors educate
The semigod whom we await?
He must be musical,
Tremulous,... More
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. More
Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I... More
Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the... More
Clara: I don’t think a mother should depend so much upon her children for her rewards in... More
Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice... More
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements. But they can only... More
Continued pressure brought passage of a law in 1921 which (exhaustively) declared that “no... More
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. More
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The... More
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it... More
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? it is not to... More
Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be... More
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. More
Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion,... More
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. More
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that... More
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for... More
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. More
Education is a necessity, it helps to understand life. Like that compagnero in Cuba who talked... More
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that... More
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better... More
Education is not so important as people think. More
Education is the art of making man ethical. More
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them... More
Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have. More
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to... More
Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for... More
Education must, then, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative... More
Education [is not] a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments... More
Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of... More
Educational ... legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the... More
Even the hatred
in a man
who’s valued for his learning
is desirable,
but I’m... More
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living... More
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of... More
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s... More
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are... More
Every head should be cultivated. More
Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the... More

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