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“I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.”

Trying Looks Education Cases Teacher Sitting Intelligent Classroom

Author:Elton John

“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

“If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.”

Ifs Children Education Creativity Creative Needed Involved Tools Intelligent Our Children Educational Mastery Literacy

Author:Danny Glover

“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.”

Children Care Age Education Progress Teaching Terrible Weapons Destruction Mercy Intelligent Nuclear Weapons

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.”

People Knows World Education Intelligent Conquer Alphabet Prussia

Author:George William Curtis

“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'”

Knows Men Asks Answers Education Knowledge Wise Intelligent Intelligence Ignorant Ashamed Do You Know Questioning Being Afraid Intelligent Man Very Wise Questions Asked

Author:John Abbott

“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

“The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.”

Men Education Imagine Intelligent Average Educational Ass Engaging Intelligent Man

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series