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• An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Mind, Age, Educated Mind

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Games

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

  Margaret of Valois

  Art, Appreciate, Produce

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• Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Children, Women

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• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Wise, Sight, Soul

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, Past, Men

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• [An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

  Mildred H. McAfee

  Education, Thinking, Survival

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• Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Attitude, Greatness, Understanding

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• A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Men, Musical

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Independent, Opportunity

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

  George Berkeley

  Art, Plato, Writing

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1820). “The works of George Berkeley”, p.403

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• I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Truth, Honesty

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• Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dance, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Harvard University Press

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• Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Civilization, Class, Organization

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• The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.

  Linda Lantieri

  Education, Mean, People

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, War, Hands

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth.  Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

  Brennan Manning

  Powerful, Sight, Nerd

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• How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Greek, Educated Person, Persons

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• I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Art, Stories, Cafes

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• The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.

  Calvin Cheng

  Democracy, Comfort, Groups

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• Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Party, Example

  "The Artful Albanian" by Enver Hoxha, Chatto & Windus, London, 1986.

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• To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Marriage, Sex, School

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.70, Hackett Publishing

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• We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Spontaneity

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• I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.

  Elijah Cummings

  Jobs, Children, Confused

  "Freddie Gray homicide reaction: Baltimore cheers, weeps" by John Blake, Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2015.

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• Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
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  Shirley Chisholm

  Children, Mean, Pride

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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