The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
Anne Sullivan Macy
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
effort people
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
people
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
life perseverance education
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
war
purpose truth education
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
change
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
history light
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
imagination experience
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
wrongs experience
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
purpose innovation light education
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
birth growth mind
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
philosophy difficulties
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
difficulties
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