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“If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.”

Ifs States Facts Education Greater Willing Promise Lays Profession Engaged

Book:Isocrates

Source: Isocrates

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“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.”

Men Needs Giving Soul Play Pay Education Responsibility Willing Fine Ought Gold Intelligent Punishment Handle Ignorant Tunes Silver Gold And Silver

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

People Should Whole School Individual Education Willing Bears Miles Expenses Squares Self Education Charitable

Book:The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence

Source: The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5