"Education is civil defence against media fallout."
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"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."
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"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
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"Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth."
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
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"Good is not good, where better is expected"
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"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
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"If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer."
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"Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having."
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"When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning."
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"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."
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"The children are now working as if I did not exist."
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"Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing."
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"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
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"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races."
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"Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars."
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"Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship."
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"There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls."
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