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Letter "E" » Education
«When we escaped from Cuba, all we could carry was our education.»
«We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.»
«We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Education,
Freedom
| Keywords:
educated, free people, must not, ought, philosophers
«What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
| About:
Business,
Capitalism,
Education,
Generations,
Science,
Society
| Keywords:
bringing, capitalism, inventions, produced, The Works
«We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.»
«What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
employment, generation, instructing, instructs, nobler, rising, The Rising, The State, valuable
«We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.»
«When schools flourish, all flourishes»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
flourish, flourished, flourishes, schools
«What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Books,
Education
| Keywords:
after all, books, collection, collections, depends, finished, Great Books, professors, The Professor, university
«When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Education,
Planning,
Virtue
| Keywords:
hereditary, planning, posterity
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