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“It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.”

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Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.”

Whole Hands Care Energy Education Rich Taken Politician Waste Thirds Rate University Core Wasting Time Scholar Rotten

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“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)

“Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.”

Hands Education Development Educate Flogging

Book:The education of the child

Source: The education of the child

“Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.”

People Hands Education Issues Greater Complexes Simplicity Educated Misfortunes Unfortunate Uneducated

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”

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Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”

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Book:The diaries of Franz Kafka

Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

“Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“The essence of education is the education of the body.”

Feelings Body Hands Education Knowledge Learning Essence Fingers Educational Touching

Book:Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales