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“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

“The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every county and fair to every child, and would put the education dollar where that dollar is needed most, now.”

Children States Would Be Deals Education Study Needed Fairs Dollars Work Out Experts Formulas County

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Women Sides Education Forever Apples Buttons Sewing Slippers

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.”

“I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.”

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

“If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.”

Ifs Littles Would Be School Christian Pain Time Education Christianity Crime Bible Punishment Remove Wasting Time Public School Preventing

Author:Benjamin Rush

“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

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”

Would Be Able Education Knowledge Learning Teaching Masters Losing Chinese Superior Man

Book:Lun Yü

Source: Lun Yü

“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”

People Mind Would Be Law Purpose Education Class Learning Wise Youth Generous Expenses Humane Extravagant Public Education Lower Class Liberal Education

Book:Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it”

“People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.”