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«The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.»
«The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.»
Author: Marshal Ferdinand Foch
| Keywords:
attain, discernment, enable, execution, for good, fundamental, lastly, method, singleness, stubborn
«The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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abundance, condemned, construct, controlling, convenience, enable, equipment, intolerable, liberation, plunges, richly, such that, The Organization
«The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Communication
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advantage, communication, enable, modern, This Modern World
«The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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adequate, applied, arising, continued, distributed, enable, equitably, intercourse, provision, reconstruction, social intercourse, stimulation
«The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
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deliver, enable, improvement, secondly
«The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
enable, get along, teaching, The Object of
«The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
along, child, enable, get along, object, teacher, teaching, The Object of
«Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] set down on paper the only principles which will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| Keywords:
agreement, conference, conferences, draft, enable, globe, International, on paper, set down
«The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself»
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