"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."
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"The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change."
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance..."
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"The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use"
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"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
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"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
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"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching."
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"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things."
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
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"A child miseducated is a child lost."
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"One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children."
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."
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"Education is the best provision for old age."
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"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."
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"It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time."
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"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."
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