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“Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.”

Kids Education Streets Projects Stuck Scholar Carter

Author:Big Pun

“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 new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.”

“I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.”

Ifs Values Education Responsibility Learning Ought Authority Mere Shoulders Conclusion Scholar Laziness I Have Learned Tested Propose Thrust

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”

Fear Education Learning Blood Atheism Military Sacred Rage Scholar Ink Martyr Martyred Inspirational Learning Holy Prophet Ink Pens

Author:Nazr Mohammed

“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

Men World Political Politics Education Great Men Scholar

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”

Trying Education Learning Human Nature Students Buddhism Everyday Scholar Unlearn

Author:Alan Watts

“Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.”

Source: The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men

“Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.”

Firsts Remember Nations Education Leader Educational Scholar Great Leader

Author:John F. Kennedy