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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Ignorance, Opportunity, Justice

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  Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Thinking, People

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.202, Booklassic

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• What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Fighting, Race, Rallying Point

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• Human beings are curious by nature.

  Aristotle

  Curious, Humans, Human Beings

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• Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Curiosity, Littles, Needs

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Creativity, Asking Questions

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

  Benjamin Greene

  Children, Unique, Expression

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• To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Men, May, Great Teacher

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Political

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

  Charlotte Mason

  School, Abiding, Speak

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Zhuangzi (1927). “Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ”

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• Education is soul crafting.

  Cornel West

  Soul

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• For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Effort, Failing

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• The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Mind, Use

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• Education is understanding relationships.

  George Washington Carver

  Understanding, Intelligence

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• I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

  George Washington Carver

  Learning, Discovery, Self

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• One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  One Love

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• A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

  Helen Keller

  Mind, Answers, Educated

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• We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Would Be, Students, Helpful

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Tasks, Helping

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  You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

  Marie Curie

  World, Individual, Women In Science

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Education, Trying

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• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Learning, Ballet

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• Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

  Nido R Qubein

  Training, Teach

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• Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Running, Teaching, Knowing

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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