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Quotes by Educator

"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."

"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."

"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."

"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."
Life,

"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."

"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."

"This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion."

"If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive."

"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."

"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."

"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."

"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."

"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."


"Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence."

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."

"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."

"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."


"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."

"I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others."

"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."

"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."

"And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation."

"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."

"The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good."

"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
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