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Hosea Ballou

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

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Amber Hurdle

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

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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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn."

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

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"Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books."

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"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

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"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

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"Error is always more busy than truth."
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"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."
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"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."
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"Hatred is self-punishment."
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
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"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."
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