Quotes with educational

  • 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.
  • Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
  • Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

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  • Carroll Quigley ...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Maria Montessori An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Bobby Scott Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Al Capp Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • A. J. Muste Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
    Some Notes on Workers Education in New International (1935) Vol.2, No.7 p. 225
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Bill Nunn Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
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  • Brendan Myers For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Groucho Marx I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Maria Montessori If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Campbell Brown Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • William John Bennett Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Holt People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Emma Goldman 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.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bobby Scott The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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