"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
-Plutarch
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
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"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
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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."
-Alonzo Mourning
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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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