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"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
"We are taught words, not ideas."
""Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.""
"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."
"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
"The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches."
"Some people would rather die than think."
"Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm."
"Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity."
"My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect."
"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."
"Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary."
"The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
"Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books."
"A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity."
"As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind."
"Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones."
"Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure."
"To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls."
