Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-01-03 Jan 3, 2017There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.~ Ayn RandWords have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.~ BuddhaSpeak honestly, and the truth will make itself known.~ Eric Schaub Jan 2, 2017He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel ButlerSome who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.~ Khalil GibranEvery great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.~ Ben Shahn Dec 30, 2016If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.~ Theodore RooseveltIs uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.~ Thomas JeffersonInstead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth!~ Will Rogers Dec 29, 2016Character is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image.~ Alan KeyesThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.~ Eric HofferNannyism is fascism on training wheels.~ R. L. Root Dec 28, 2016In education markets, like the Asian tutoring industry, top teachers are superstars who get to design curricula for thousands or even millions of students and train scores or hundreds of other teachers to use their effective methods. Quality providers expand and are emulated by competitors, and there is a powerful incentive for meaningful innovation. ... One teacher in Korea’s private tutoring sector made $2 million last year because his web-based employer has profit sharing and he’s brilliant at what he does, so he gets tons of students. That’s what should have happened to [Jaime] Escalante. That’s the sort of success that should greet excellence in education at all levels. It doesn’t because we don’t have a market.~ Andrew J. CoulsonWhy is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?~ Stephen AronsIn a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print