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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.”
Bertrand Russell
“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett
“I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.”
Dr. Haim Ginott
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey
“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”
W. C. Fields
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
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