“All men by nature desire knowledge.” MenInspirationalDesireEducationKnowledgeLearningTrainingEducationalDesire For KnowledgePower Of Knowledge Author:Aristotle
“In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'” MenMindDesireFatherPresidentEducationDemocracySecurityGeniusAcknowledgeRepublicTexasDictatorGuardianFree Man Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
“Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.” IfsMenHas BeensDesireEducationModernCreationMiraclePaidInspiredMaking MoneyProfessorsScholarshipOxfordModern HistoryCreation Of Man Author:David Ogilvy
“It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?” ShouldWellsSchoolYoungDesireFunNaturalEducationStudyLaysNotesChecksLeapCheerLuther Author:Martin Luther
“I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.” MayHas BeensImportantDesireEducationStudentsTaughtRegardMedicalStatementsEpitaphImportant Work Book:Aequanimitas Source: Aequanimitas