"One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education."
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"A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected."
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"We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic."
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"An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world."
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"Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise."
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"Nature is stronger than education."
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"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated."
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"Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically."
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"Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment."
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"You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like."
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"When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security."
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"Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time."
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"In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses."
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"Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore."
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"The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank."
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"I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation."
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"I'd rather teach peace."
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"As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it."
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"Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity."
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"I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school."
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