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“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Challenges Education Stupid Mines Pride Fool Claims Criticize Presumptuous Marius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”

Mind Education Accepting Claims Crave Pupils

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.”

Ifs Children Facts Easy Simple Education Skills Claims Despite Print Spontaneous Learning To Read

Book:The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

“Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.”

Spirit Education Modern Truth Is Claims Crush Education System Instill Truth Be Told Modern Education

Book:The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

“In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.”

“There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.”

Long Two Government Education Subjects Republican Claims Breathe Division Hook County Public Education Hanging On Continuance Republican Government

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson