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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.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

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.

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

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.

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

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

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

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

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

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

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.