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“People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.”

People Knows Feels Sin Education Too Much

Author:Bob Dylan

“The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.”

Feels Made Would Be Education Intelligent Inferiors Proposal Pupils Industrious Dunces Idlers

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.”

“most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.”

People Knows Feels Made Care Education Learning Taught Ignorant

Book:Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)”

“More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?”

“When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.”

Feels Littles Home Happens Universe Education Learning Comfortable Something New Nests New Day

Book:A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

Source: A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.”

Feels Firsts May Long Education Cutting Teaching Like You Innovation Impact Investment Flying Engines Airplane Deficit Overloaded Flying High

Author:Barack Obama

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Firsts Lost Education Learning

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

Life Feels Heart Real Education Destiny Positive Taught Calling Moonshine

Author:Walter Scott

“The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.”

Source: Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Feels Has Beens Past Individual Mistake Education Teaching Subjects Century Students Treats Justified Biggest Mistake

Author:Howard Gardner

“You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.”

Feels Children Motivational Education Moral Feel Better

Author:Stephanie S. Tolan

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”

“There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.”

Feels Children Happens Lying Religion Parent Loses Education Intelligence Excuse Deceiving Conventional Justified Lied No Excuses

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.”

Ifs Feels Mean Made Mistake Education Parenting Educational Made A Mistake

Author:Albert Einstein