"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

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"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

Stephen King, American Author

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"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Education, Teaching, Physics, Truth, Wrong

"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Education, Individual, Community, Training

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Education, Mother, People, College, Ignorance

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."

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"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."

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"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."

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"Everything I do is the environment."

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"You can't make people respond."

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"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

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