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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can… — John Dewey
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in… — John Dewey
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. — John Dewey
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon… — Helen Keller
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
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you… — Bill Russell
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity… — Hillary Clinton
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment… — Emile Durkheim
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and… — Noam Chomsky
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of… — Sherry Turkle
The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. — Marco Tempest
In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with… — Esther Duflo
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose… — Nicholas A. Christakis
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… — Marshall McLuhan
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not… — Mother Teresa
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here… — George Bernard Shaw
Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. — Unknown Author
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. — Karl Marx
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to… — Stephen King
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others. — George Robinson

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