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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
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"When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done."
"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."
"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty."
"In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook."
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