Best individual & education Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

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Author:Gustave Courbet

“The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.”

Jobs Courses Individual Nations Process Education Journey Discovery Finished Continuing Unfinished

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

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Author:John W. Gardner

“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.”

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

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Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.”

Wells May Individual Education Wonder Genius

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.”

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Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.”

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Book:Teacher

Source: Teacher

“I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.”

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Book:Inside Soviet schools

Source: Inside Soviet schools

“The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.”

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Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.”

Men Humans Stills Individual Race Education Human Race Revelations

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.”

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Author:Gunnar Myrdal

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