Quotations About / On: EDUCATION

  • 11.
    Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation's agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family's financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.
    (Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), U.S. president. The Vantage Point, ch. 9, pp. 207-208, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971). Presidential speech.)
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  • 12.
    Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
    (Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist. repr. in Collected Works, vol. 4, para. 442, ed. William McGuire (1961). The Theory of Psychoanalysis (1913).)
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  • 13.
    Very likely education does not make very much difference.
    (Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Originally published in New York Herald Tribune (Mar 16, 1935). "American Education and Colleges," How Writing Is Written, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas, Black Sparrow Press (1974).)
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  • 14.
    I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 15.
    There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
    (Will Rogers (1879-1935), U.S. humorist. The Autobiography of Will Rogers, ch. 6 (1949).)
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  • 16.
    'Tis education forms the common mind,
    Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Epistle to Cobham, l. 149-50 (1734).)
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  • 17.
    Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
    (Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968), U.S. actress. Tallulah, ch. 1 (1952). At this point, Bankhead had never appeared on television. Later, she would.)
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  • 18.
    The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
    (Jane Rule (b. 1931), Canadian lesbian, feminist, fiction writer, and essayist; born in the U.S. A Hot-Eyed Moderate, part 2 (1985).)
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  • 19.
    No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
    (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's public addresses), side 5, National Education Association (June 30, 1938), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). FDR was opposed to external interference by government or private agencies in the content of curriculum.)
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  • 20.
    The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
    (Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Idea 37 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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