Quotes on Education
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Be Strong
"Beloved young friends, much of our future rests with you. You are needed-not to be weak, but to be strong. WE BELIEVE IN YOU."
-David B. Haight-
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Mark Twain-
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"The older I grow, the more I enjoy the words of thoughtful writers, ancient and modern, and the savoring of that which they have written."
-Gordon B. Hinckley-
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"Don't be down on that you're not up on."
-Harold B. Lee -
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"If a teacher influences but one, his influence never stops."
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"It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself."
-Winthrop A. Aldrich-
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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
-James Bryce-
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"We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--RESPONSIBILITY."
-President Herbert Hoover-
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"Whatever I did not know, I was not ashamed to inquire about, so I acquired knowledge."
-Ancient Persian Philosopher-
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"Character is the aim of true education."
-David O. McKay-
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
-Theodore Roosevelt-
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"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."
-English Clergyman Edwin Paxton Hood, The New Dictionary of Thoughts-
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"Education in virtue is the only education which deserves the name."
-Plato, Laws, p. 643-44
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"Get all the schooling you can. Education is the key that unlocks the door of opportunity. God has placed upon this people a mandate to acquire knowledge even by study and also by faith"
President Gordon B. Hinckley, Oct. 4, 1997 General Conference, "Some Thoughts on Temples, Retention of Converts, and Missionary Service"
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"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other... how to live."
James Truslow Adams
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"A book is a present you can open again and again."
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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
-Abraham Lincoln-
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