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“Your choice of armor was your intellect.”

Choices Education Intellect Armor

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.”

Kind Education Endure Inspired Intellect All Kinds Ghastly

Author:Paul Delaroche

“When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.”

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Author:Horace Mann

“... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.”

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Book:A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

Source: A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

“The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?”

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Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.”

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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

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”

“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”

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Author:Edward Thorndike

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.”

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Book:T. H. Huxley on Education

Source: T. H. Huxley on Education

“Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.”

Reason Education Impossible Intellect Sensible

Author:Max Born

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.”

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Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course