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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.”

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Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source: Systematic Theology

“The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”

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Author:Ruben Blades

“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

Source: The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem

“The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”

“The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.”