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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.: Richard Clark
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.: Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.: Henry Tuckerman
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.: Allan K. Chalmers
Who escapes duty, avoids a gain.: Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
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)
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

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