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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper dea...more

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Rea...more

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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

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the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is...more

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For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgari...more

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By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a h...more

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No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organis...more