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Quotes by Educator
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."
8
"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
8
"The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects."
8
"We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index."
8
"So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another."
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"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
8
"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
8
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
8
"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
8
"It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?"
8
"She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect."
8
"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience."
8
"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
8
"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
8
"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known."
8
"The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful."
8
"Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights."
8
"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."
8
"But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost."
8
"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
8
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
8
"Dreams of innocence are just that, they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris."
8
"David Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries."
8
"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
7
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
7
"Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north."
7
"If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple."
7
"The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know."
7
"Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008."
7
"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
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"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
7
"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
7
"Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices."
7
"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."
7
"The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death."
7
"But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ."
7
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
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