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"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
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"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."
"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."
"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."
"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
"We shall always meet teachers but we shall seldom meet good teachers. We shall seldom meet a good teacher who is good enough to direct the body, mind and soul towards the path of true purposefulness. We shall hardly meet good teachers who are good enough to leave indelible and distinctive footprints in our minds; good teachers whose words, thoughts, actions and wonderful deeds would continue to reecho themselves in our minds and become the yardstick, guiding principles and reasons for the steps we take each moment of time. We shall always meet teachers but, we shall seldom and hardly meet great teachers!"
"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."
"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
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