"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"
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"Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education."
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"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."
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"In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory."
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"most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant."
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"Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it."
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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder."
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"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life."
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
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"The essence of education is the education of the body."
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"If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country."
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"Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude."
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"I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue."
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"I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them."
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"We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright."
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"Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well."
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"The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own"
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"Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information."
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"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."
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