Quote by John Ruskin
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to w

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – John Ruskin

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Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. – John Ruskin

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. – John Ruskin

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I studied secondary education. – Jim McKay

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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. – Joseph Lancaster

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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

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