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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
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
Shinichi Suzuki
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.”
Ayn Rand
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve”
Roger Lewin
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned”
Mark Twain
