"The highest result of education is tolerance."
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
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"No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out."
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
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"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men."
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"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
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"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
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"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored."
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"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
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"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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"Learning never exhausts the mind."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
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"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
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