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“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

“There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!”

Ifs Believe Wells Children Might Hate I Believe Enjoy Education Boys Healthy Greek Grammar Regularity

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

States Age Found Pleasure Money Education Communication Healthy Cost Profit Enjoyed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.”

Ifs Believe Littles Force I Believe Education Modern Holy Healthy Miracle Method Curiosity Hungry Beast Instruction Inquiry Prey Whips

Author:Albert Einstein

“Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.”

Firsts Kind Education Teaching Healthy Perseverance Educational Persistence Questioning Persistent

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.”

Natural Education Knowledge Learning Serious Healthy Garden Experience Satisfaction Educational Contemplation Labour Gardening Longevity Tranquility

Book:Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions

Source: Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions