THE GREAT CONVERSATION: THE SUBSTANCE O...
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“We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.”
“The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.”
“It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.”
“Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'”
“...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.”
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“The best education for the best is the best education for all.”
“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”
“Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.”
“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
“...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.”
“A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.”
“Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.”