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“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
Albert Einstein
“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others”
Grayson Kirk
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one”
Bel Kaufman
“If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”
Kahlil Gibran
“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
“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
