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“I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.”

People Realizing Common Education Taste Highest Inclination Acquisition Grudge Workmen No Sympathy

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.

“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.”

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Motivational Desire Business Education Knowledge Increase Riches Thirst Acquisition Desire For Knowledge Thirst For Knowledge Increasing Knowledge

Book:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.”

“Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.”

Thinking Inspirational Philosophy Literature Ability Education Educational Variety Acquisition

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky