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Education is a
weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands
and at whom it is aimed.
-- Joseph Stalin
1879-1953, Georgian-born
Soviet Leader
The worst
education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best
which teaches everything else, and not that.
-- John Sterling
American Sports Announcer
A liberally
educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and
fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas
with fear.
-- James B. Stockdale
Now, if the
principle of toleration were once admitted into classical
education --if it were admitted that the great object is to
read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching
were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this
result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the
bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the
enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their
own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its
beauty, and its coolness.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist,
Antislavery Campaigner
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I am beginning
to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.
They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every
child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne Sullivan
1866-1936, American Educator
of the Deaf, Blind
It is only the
ignorant who despise education.
-- Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Every act of
conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an
injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children,
before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so
easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or
important, cannot learn at all.
-- Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist
How could
youths better learn to live than by at once trying the
experiment of living?
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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