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- Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
- Author Unknown
- The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.
- U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children
- In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Mrs. Sigourney
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)
- Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
- Lloyd George
- 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.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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