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To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

To perceive is to suffer.

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device by which to teach a demonstrable truth other than by giving satisfaction to a single virtuous man while displeasing ten thousand ignoramuses - I am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those many creatures.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

To think is to differ.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down.

Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.