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"Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement."
"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"
"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."
"Never memorize something that you can look up."
"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."
"The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical."
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."
"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"
"My faith is the only thing that never fails me."
"The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind."
"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
"The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject."
"I've never let my school interfere with my education."
"Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity."
