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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil…
— Thomas Jefferson
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do…
— Anthony Hopkins
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
— Aristotle
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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
— Aristotle
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We must become just be doing just acts.
— Aristotle
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It is no easy task to be good.
— Aristotle
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
— Aristotle
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
— Aristotle
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
— Albert Bandura
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Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
— Jerome Bruner
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Knowledge is justified belief.
— Jerome Bruner
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Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
— Jerome Bruner
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Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
— Confucius
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
— John Dewey
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Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
— John Dewey
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Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
— John Dewey
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
— John Donne
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The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must…
— Albert Einstein
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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love is an act of courage.
— Paulo Freire
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No reality transforms itself.
— Paulo Freire
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Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
— Paulo Freire
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are…
— Paulo Freire
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to…
— Paulo Freire
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