Quote by John Adams
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. – John Adams

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Commitment
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams

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power
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. Thats what I call a liberal education. – Tallulah Bankhead

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The big shift in approach on education that we are taking – which is different from what happened before – is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. – Michael Gove

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The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. – John Jay Hooker

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Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877

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Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as todays newspaper. – Charles Peguy

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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles de Gaulle

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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman

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