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Quotes by Educator
"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be."
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"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."
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"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
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"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."
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"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
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"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."
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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
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"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
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"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
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"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."
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"Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy."
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"Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic."
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"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."
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"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
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"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
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"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again."
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"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
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"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide."
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"Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy."
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"Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe."
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"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
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"We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy."
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"The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward."
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"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"
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