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Quotes by Educator
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
14
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
14
"Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present."
14
"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change."
14
"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
14
"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
14
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
14
"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world."
14
"In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances."
14
"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
14
"Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction."
14
"Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life."
14
"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."
14
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
14
"They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets."
14
"My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am."
14
"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."
14
"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially."
14
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
14
"In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics."
14
"As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself."
14
"For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?"
14
"As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year."
14
"The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world."
14
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
14
"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."
13
"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
13
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
13
"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
13
"It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others."
13
"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."
13
"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view."
13
"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
13
"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends."
13
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
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