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Quotes by Educator

"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."

"It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways."

"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."

"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."

"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."


"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."

"We must reinforce argument with results."

"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

"So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement."

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."

"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."

"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."

"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."

"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."

"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."

"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"

"As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment."

"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance."

"Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination."

"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."


"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."

"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."

"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."

"The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe."

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"

"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."

"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."
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