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Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish,

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to mans estate, is the gift of education. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin

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Too much of what is called education is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. – Thomas Sowell

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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. – Dalai Lama

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Im sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think its outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. – Marian Wright Edelman

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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