"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.“
-John Ruskin
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."
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"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."
-John Ruskin
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
-Richard Cobden
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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