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If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the…

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Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at…
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the…
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology…
Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is…
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they…
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend…
An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the…
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have…
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own…
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we…

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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy… — Johannes Brahms
I think the voters can make up their own minds. — Jeb Bush
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ;… — William Blum
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the… — Buddhadasa
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing… — Thomas Hutchinson
Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. — Napoleon Hill
Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as… — Aung San Suu Kyi
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe… — Gautama Buddha
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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