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• People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beautiful, Education, Children

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.49

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• Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Strength, Exercise, Development And Growth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396

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• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

  Plutarch

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Egypt

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• If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

  Confucius

  Inspiring, Children, Years

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Meaningful, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.63, Algora Publishing

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Knowledge, Desire

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• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeat

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• The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Education, Philosophy, Principles

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• I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Sacred, Duty

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2015). “Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words”, p.48, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

  James A. Garfield

  Inheritance, Sacred, Privilege

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.792, Best Books on

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• Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Writing, Learning

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• I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Believe, Drug, Useless

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• In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Yehudi Menuhin (1977). “Unfinished Journey”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria; we didn't have machines or things for children to buy food from. But parents can try to educate their children about choices. A lot of everything we're talking about that has to do with heart disease has to do with the choices that we make.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Heart, School

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• People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

  Gary L. Francione

  Keys, Issues, Racism

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• The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Long, Ego

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Chess, Intellect

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• Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Cities, People, Hollywood

  "Antiwar actor: 'I don't have to be a policy expert'". "In the Crossfire" with Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2003.

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• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Careers, Balance

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• Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Needs, Earth

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• What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their children and educate them with love and justice (and not just with words, but with their own behavior) the relationship with their children will be wonderful. Then parents will always be proud of their children, and children will always be proud of their parents. There will be peace in the family, and the home will be a sanctuary.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Believe, Home

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.

  Basil Moreau

  Heart, Mind, Timeless

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• I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

  Talib Kweli

  Education, Skills, Community

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• Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

  Matt Damon

  Differences, Issues, Making A Difference

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