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"Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything."
"An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age."
"The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think."
"The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer."
"A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience."
"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]"
"Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings."
"As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that is due to changes in women's attitudes about their own abilities. As more women participate in such things as fly-fishing, whitewater kayaking and bicycling, we're also seeing concurrent growth in those areas in adventure travel."
"Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story."
"In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made."
"Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life."
"In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle."
"A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day."
"We are wiser than we know."
"letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation."
"the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training."
"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
"I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since."
"To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility."
"From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent."
