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"Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right."
"And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?"
"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."
"In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort."
"That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."
"Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars."
"A form of self-delusion."
"We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!"
"Education is helping the child realise his potentialities."
"Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it."
"I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven."
"History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."
"History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth."
"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country."
"A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded."
"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature."
"When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned!"
"The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink."
"You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both."
"You have to be someone."
