We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Topic: Education, Example, Thinking
- Location: Bermuda
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.
There is no education like adversity.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
