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A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

A form of self-delusion.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

A good education is another name for happiness.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

A good student is one who will teach you something.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

All education must be self-education.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.