"Logic is the anatomy of thought."
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"Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example."
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"People will pay more to be entertained than educated."
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"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?"
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"...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty."
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"Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going."
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"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
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"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
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"In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life."
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"To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us."
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"The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power."
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"Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't."
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"You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people."
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"I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made."
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"Nature has always had more force than education."
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"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
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"Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility."
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"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers."
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"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
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