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“See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.”

Children Mother Education Higher Our Children Tongue Educated Your Children Branches Mother Tongue

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.”

Kind Views Education Study Activity Intellectual Sake Branches Leisure

Book:Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”

Giving Made Bigs Given Mistake Education Study Method Branches

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”

Common Education Profession Branches Academic Academic Education

Author:Loretta Young

“Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”

Different Courses Education Ambition Branches Distraction Mock Arithmetic Turtles Alice Adventures In Wonderland Derision

Book:Alice in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland