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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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The quotes below remind us that education is a lifelong process of empowerment. Education helps us to grow and develop as individuals. Education can empower us to become empathic individuals, build our self-confidence and learn more about our strengths. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound, 'The Instructor: II,' Chapter Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934 Education should be exercise; it has become massage. Fischer (1879–1962).

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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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- Leonard Ravenhill

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- Martin Luther

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They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
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Quotes About Education And Learning

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn.
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When one considers our nation's educational foundations -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian -- it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.
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It is so important that our churches, our Christian schools and we, as individuals, do not allow non-Christian influences to influence our beliefs.
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- Thomas Aquinas

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

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Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
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Men are more inclined to ask curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction.
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Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.
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It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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I've graduated from three universities, and I can tell you that some of the dumbest people on earth are hiding out there.

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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
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It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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He has seen but little of life who does not discern everywhere the effect of early education on men's opinions and habits of thinking. Children bring out of the nursery that which displays itself throughout their lives.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character. That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

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- George Herbert

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Quotes On Educational Goals

It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.
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A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection.
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- Helen Keller

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I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
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Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.
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Aversion from reproof is not wise. It is a mark of a little mind. A great man can afford to lose; a little, insignificant fellow is afraid of being snuffed out.

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered Exultation is rooted in God-centered Education.

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Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

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- Thomas Fuller

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- Helen Keller

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John Lewis recently died at age 80 after devoting his life to the struggle for equality and equal rights. After many years as an activist and organizer, John Lewis served in the House of Representatives from 1987-2020. John Lewis organized the March on Washington with MLK, served on the Atlanta City Council, and was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

John Lewis was one of the most inspiring voices of his generation, and his words often inspired action for justice. Here are some of John Lewis’ best and most famous quotes on voting, good trouble, and “if you see something.”

Best John Lewis Quotes:

“I appeal to all of you to get into this great revolution that is sweeping this nation. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village and hamlet of this nation until true freedom comes, until the revolution of 1776 is complete.” – John Lewis, 1963 March on Washington

“To those who have said, ‘Be patient and wait,’ we have long said that we cannot be patient. We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now! We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again.” – John Lewis, March on Washington speech

“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” – From John Lewis’ memoir, Across That Bridge

John Lewis Quotes on Faith, Civil Rights

“Faith is being so sure of what the spirit has whispered in your heart that your belief in its eventuality is unshakable.” – John Lewis quote from his book Across that Bridge

“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.” – John Lewis quote

“We have been too quiet for too long. There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise. You have to move your feet. This is the time.” – John Lewis quote, 2016 House sit-in soon after Pulse shooting in Orlando

John Lewis Quotes on Voting:

“My dear friends: Your vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have to create a more perfect union.” – John Lewis quote voting, 2012 speech in Charlotte, North Carolina

“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone – any person or any force – dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant.” – Quote from John Lewis’ 2017 memoir, Across That Bridge

“Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be—you get out and push, and you pull, and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of goodwill in power to act.“ — John Lewis on his continuing dedication to nonviolence while reflecting on the March on Washington with Bill Moyers

“I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.” – John Lewis

“Selma is a place where we injected something very meaningful into our democracy. We opened up the political process and made it possible for hundreds and thousands and millions of people to come in and be participants.” – John Lewis quote on Selma

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“We were beaten, we were tear-gassed. I thought I was going to die on this bridge. But somehow and some way, God almighty helped me here. We cannot give up now. We cannot give in. We must keep the faith, keep our eyes on the prize.” – John Lewis on Selma

“Fifty years later, those of us who are committed to the cause of justice need to pace ourselves because the struggle does not last for one day, one week, or one year, but it is the struggle of a lifetime, and each generation must do its part.” – John Lewis quote

“If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.” – John Lewis

“Despite real progress, I can’t help but think of young Emmett [Till] today as I watch video after video after video of unarmed Black Americans being killed, and falsely accused. My heart breaks for these men and women, their families, and the country that let them down – again.

My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” – John Lewis on George Floyd’s death

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“If You See Something” Quote

“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, ‘What did you do? What did you say?’ For some, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.” – John Lewis, Dec. 2019 remarks in the House on the impeachment of President Donald Trump

Quotes on Love

“What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.” – John Lewis

“What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.” – John Lewis quote

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John Lewis Quotes: Good Trouble

“I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis

“It was very moving, very moving to see hundreds and thousands of people from all over America and around the world take to the streets to speak up, to speak out, to get into-what I call ‘good trouble,’ but to get in the way, and because of the action of young and old, Black, white, Latino, Asian-American, and Native American, because people cried and prayed, people will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.” – on Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s death.

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis tweet, June 2018

“Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble… good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis

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Never Give Up

“I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.” – John Lewis

“You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way… to get in the way.” – John Lewis

After John Lewis’ death, French President, Emmanuel Macron, said of John, “A lifetime of struggle for civil rights. A lifetime of getting into ‘good trouble,’ of fighting for a world that is more just. A true hero. Indeed, ‘because of you, John.”