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Petty laws breed great crimes. ↗

— Ouida

#crimes #great #laws #petty

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#him #i #me #must #sent

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#be true #give #good #his #instruction

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#ignorance #knowledge #attitude

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. ↗

— Alice Waters

#community #education #farming #food #education

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#children #disrespectful #life #memoir #savages

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball. ↗

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

#ball #fella #help #i #play

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#humor #school #education