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Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.