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"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"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."
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"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."
"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."
"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
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