"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."

People, Effort

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"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

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"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."

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"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."

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"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."

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"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."

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"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."

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"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."

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"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."

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"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."

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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."

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