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Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Education
Public Education
Preparation
Society
Others
Moral
Citizenship
Constitutional
New
Democratic
Democratic Society
Essentially
Public
Social
Jefferson
Prepare
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rule
Shallow
Am
Very
Where
Conventional
Depth
Originality
Wasted
Careful
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
Maria Montessori
Life
Education
You
Protection
Will
Course
Accompany
Realize
Whole
Necessary
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
Maria Montessori
Education
You
Problem
Controlling
Solved
Entire
Attention
Child
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
Maria Montessori
Garden
Men
Must
Brotherhood
Over
Obstacles
Globe
Surface
Children
Mankind
Should
Whole
United
Playing
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Maria Montessori
Education
Needs
Man
Age
Personality
School
Old
Made
Three
Say
He
Years
Child
Human
Laid
Old Man
Acquisitions
Human Personality
Help
Special
Who
Foundations
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
Maria Montessori
Me
Invented
Given
Studied
Taken
True
Method
Child
Expressed
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
Marvin Olasky
Winter
Christian
Sync
Saw
Easter
Only
Like
Move
Ice
Skating
Holidays
Pairs
Olympics
Jewish
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Good
Change
Youth
Courage
Old
Power
Out
Must
Direct
Potential
Toward
Powerful
Ideas
Practices
May
Ends
Old Ideas
Reading is a bridge to thought.
Maryanne Wolf
Thought
Reading
Bridge
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Michael Pollan
Think
Objectivity
Unrealistic
Perfect
Fairness
However
Goal
Europeans fought for shorter workdays, more vacation time, family leave, and all these kinds of things. Those haven't been priorities in America: it's been about money. You see, in the countries that fought for time, they cook more often; they have less obesity. There are real benefits to having time.
Michael Pollan
Time
Family
You
Money
Benefits
Those
Obesity
Kinds
See
About
Having
More
Countries
Priorities
Real
Leave
Been
America
Often
Cook
Less
Europeans
Fought
Things
Vacation
Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.
Michael Pollan
Work
Food
Day
You
Yourself
Every Day
Long
Every
Way
Eat
Because
Lot
Junk
Junk Food
Want
Cook
Less
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
Love
Love Is
Illusion
Parent
Child
Disillusion
Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about.
Mother Angelica
Life
Heart
Humble
Humility
Meek
Must
About
Look
Concept
Him
Learn
How
His
Any
Us
Jesus
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer
Happiness
Happy
Reality
Illusion
Think
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Never
Because
Leaves
Ultimately
Us
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
Parker Palmer
Life
Education
Challenges
Gift
Beyond
Us
Measure
Even
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Paul Farmer
Me
You
Suffering
Tools
Moral
Clarity
Someone
Alleviate
Area
Eradicate
Front
Act
Your
Even
Disposal
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
Paul Farmer
Health
You
Care
Exactly
Argue
No-One
Health Care
How
Disease
Die
Human
Should
Show
Human Right
Right
Basic
It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.
Robert Conklin
Situation
Reaction
Your
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.
Robin DiAngelo
Time
Racism
People
Idea
Over
Most
Bias
Effective
Mean
Mean People
Held
Conscious
Adaptation
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman
You
Manners
Bad
Give
Parent
Bad Manners
Excuse
Does
Being
Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
Temple Grandin
You
Made
First
Autism
Think
Valley
Would
Would-Be
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Guy
More
Genetics
Were
Get
Stone
Rid
Spears
Who
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
Temple Grandin
Will
Analysis
Statistical
Determine
Records
Computerized
Most
Enable
Effective
Which
Used
Medical
Medical Records
Treatments
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
Thomas P. Campbell
Technology
World
Digital
Live
Digital Technology
Way
Relaxation
Objects
Inspiration
Most
Overload
Real
Importantly
Provide
Authenticity
Get
Place
Places
Away
Museums
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy Leary
Time
Soul
Learning
Take
Operate
How
Figures
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