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


Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. CHESTERTON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.
SYLVIA PLATH [E]very action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes fro...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generati...
PIERRE BAYLE If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul an...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul an...
MARTHA GRAHAM Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
OSCAR WILDE We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P. GARDNER We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P. GARDNER We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P GARDNER America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit in...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The society must be cultured enough to understand that children belong to the nation and hence, dese...
ASHOK ANAND To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ...
GEORGES BERNANOS You've got a whole generation of boys ... not caring about getting an education. That has repercussi...
KATHY STEVENS The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e...
JAMES BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES BALDWIN A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's sou...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The word ‘education’ comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading ou...
MURIEL SPARK The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. T...
MURIEL SPARK It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority fo...
MEL MARTINEZ This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS This competition is all about our next generation of engineers, our next generation of astronauts, o...
JAY GORE The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itse...
ROBERT E. NEALE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...
WOODROW WILSON A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A bad book is as much labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul
ALDOUS HUXLEY My parents placed a high priority on education of their children, as their whole
generation has...
JAMES KRAMER Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; ...
JULIAN BOND A “roadmap” is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap p...
PEARL ZHU The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its i...
DAVID O. SELZNICK She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls a...
KRISTIN HANNAH Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all...
VICTOR HUGO Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the o...
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GREG COHEN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE ... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source f...
PLATO The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just...
LAURIE ARMSTRONG In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don...
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CHERIE BLAIR Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another n...
WALT WHITMAN One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next ...
SAM HARRIS What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
GEORGE MCDONALD Let us no(t) weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care of itsel...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, acc...
PAULO FREIRE That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; ...
KENNETH L. PIKE Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA The findings overall are good news for the state -- with a dose of caution. Although all ethnic grou...
DEBORAH REED I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennia...
GEORGE MARTIN Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is trans...
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solel...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...
JOHN STUART MILL Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria...
LUIS PALAU When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society i...
EMILE DURKHEIM As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opport...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
GEORGE MACDONALD Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being edu...
DAVID P. GARDNER CMT and MTV are getting in the movie business. They shot one with Toby Keith. They want to do anothe...
JAMIE DENTON As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.
AHMED AKKARI Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. T...
MURIEL SPARK FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the
Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory fr...
KURT VONNEGUT Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It let...
RICHARD ROGERS Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI Education is the cornerstone of a society, ... The most important investment we can make collectivel...
BERNARD LORD It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
TOM BROKAW A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another
JOSEPH JOUBERT My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of ...
ANDY STANLEY When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton an...
PHILIP YANCEY One lesson I've learned (in this production) is that the real gospel message of the cross, the blood...
ANNETTE LEE In its simplest form, the clipboard enabled the user to simply grasp the concept of moving a copy of...
RAY OZZIE The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON The potential for loss of soul--to one degree or another--is the affliction of a society that as a c...
DAPHNE ROSE KINGMA Fundamentally, there is very little genuinely new business about. Much of the new business written i...
NED CAZALET A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by...
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G.K. CHESTERTON Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. CHESTERTON Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to...
G.K. CHESTERTON Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G.K. CHESTERTON There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to de...
G.K. CHESTERTON We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us fr...
G.K. CHESTERTON We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has for...
G.K. CHESTERTON A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
G.K. CHESTERTON Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This ...
G.K. CHESTERTON We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not underst...
G.K. CHESTERTON Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab...
G.K. CHESTERTON There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to...
G.K. CHESTERTON White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as de...
G.K. CHESTERTON The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is b...
G.K. CHESTERTON They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians....
G.K. CHESTERTON Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. CHESTERTON The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and al...
G.K. CHESTERTON Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the...
G.K. CHESTERTON If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
G.K CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.
G.K CHESTERTON Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K CHESTERTON I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
G.K CHESTERTON I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and do...
G.K CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G.K CHESTERTON To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be...
G.K. CHESTERTON In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends
G.K. CHESTERTON Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient yo...
G.K. CHESTERTON Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they...
G.K. CHESTERTON Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched ...
G.K. CHESTERTON The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G.K. CHESTERTON I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible...
G.K. CHESTERTON Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is r...
G.K. CHESTERTON Therefore I see no wrong in riding with the Nightmare to-night; she whinnies to me from the rocking ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad...
G.K. CHESTERTON The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinar...
G.K. CHESTERTON Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of abo...
G.K. CHESTERTON Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relat...
G.K. CHESTERTON According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in m...
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