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You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

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Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

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Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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