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“A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.”

Years Persons Book Might Young Artist Rooms Education Four Thousand Four Years Blank Blank Canvas

Author:Robert Genn

“In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.”

World Want Years Education Four Speech Worship Aspiration Republic Freedom Of Speech Summary

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

Nations Education Four Advice Thousand Newspapers Journalist Hostile Giver Tutor Bayonets

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.”

Years Has Beens Education Four Four Years Could Have Been Harvard Improbable

Author:Arthur Brisbane

“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.”

Years Attention Education Four Football Preparation Four Years Fraternity Professional Work

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.”

Want Needs Years May Problem Jobs Form Education Class Four Middle Century Fashion Broken Higher Skills Degrees Middle Class Four Years 21st Century Education System Higher Education

Author:Marco Rubio

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

Men Humans Mean Character Problem Certain Education Four Materials Behavior Concerned Aim Method Intellect Topics

Author:Edward Thorndike

“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”

Years Stills Enough Given Education Teach Learning Four Notion Four Years Liberating Harvard

Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”