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- We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
- Jerome Seymour Bruner
- The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
- James R. Angell
- 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
- Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
- J. Todd
- It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.
- William Nevins
- Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
- Mary Lyon
- 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)
- God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
- T. L. Cuyler
- Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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