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“I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.”

Causes Education Saws Trouble Noses Lunch Buddy Dean

Author:Bobby Vee

“Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.”

Way Littles Light Causes Lines Education Healthy Lessons Shining Mess

Author:Randy Travis

“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.”

Source: Thoughts

“The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.”

Children Causes Behinds Education Development India Curiosity Incidents

Author:Narendra Modi

“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”

States Religion Causes Religious United Education Millions United States Wise Teaching Twenties Dollars Foolish Expenses Foolishness Unseen Alas

Author:Frances Wright

“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”

People Men Government Political Individual Social Causes Education Moral Rights Prove Intellectual Improvement Establishment Advancement Free Government Diffusion

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”

Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

“It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.”

Causes Education Weakness Mediocrity Women's Education

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

Men World Needs Art Science Causes Education Teach Failing Failure Educated Disgrace Educated Man

Author:Charles Kettering

“The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.”

Humans Found Causes Education Teacher Childhood Prejudice Errors Chiefs Human Error

Author:Rene Descartes

“When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”

Humans Causes Human Beings Education Authority Mere Parenting Educational Repeats Imitation Inquiry

Book:Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning