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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.

Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you about. You look and it and you think, 'I trust this series. I would take candy from this series. I would get in a car with this series.' But I'm going to warn you, this series is out to get you. Always remember: The harmonic series diverges. Never forget it.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.

To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

To perceive is to suffer.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

To think is to differ.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.