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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

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Book:True Education

Source: True Education

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.”

Education Conditions Judgment Aim Suspended Aim Of Education

Author:George Santayana

“Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.”

Firsts Education Conditions Keys Accustomed Adequate Liberal Education Adequate Knowledge

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.”

“Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.”

“What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

Ifs World Inspirational Persons Education Learning Conditions Currents Appropriate Live And Learn You Live And You Learn Access To Education

Book:All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators

Source: All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators

“Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.”

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.”

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Book:Experience And Education

Source: Experience And Education

“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”

“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.”

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Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States