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–Henry Becque. All generalizations are false, including this one. –Alexander Chase. The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. –Gilbert Chesterton. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but reveal to them their own. – Benjamin Disraeli.
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We have gone beyond our basic instincts. There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening. Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress.
Dec 8, 2023 · “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” — Elin Nordegren. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Jul 2, 2010 · "It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791.
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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis “Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.” — Coretta Scott King “We are all implicated when we allow other...
“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.” — Ijeoma Oluo,So You Want to Talk About Race “We have a right to protest for what is right. That’s all we can do. There are people hurting, there are people suffering, so we have an obligation, a mandate, to do someth...
“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.” ...
“Without justice there can be no love.” — bell hooks “There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.” — bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism “Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassio...
“You have to get over the fear of facing the worst in yourself. You should instead fear unexamined racism. Fear the thought that right now, you could be contributing to the oppression of others and you don't know it. But do not fear those who bring that oppression to light. Do not fear the opportunity to do better.” — Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Ta...
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.” — Angela Davis “The death penaltyis not about whether people deserve to ...
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.” — Dorothy Day “Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of...
“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. W...
“Innovation comes, in science, by the people who are able to pull something apart with such insight and knowledge that they can then innovate, and they can create new — it’s how we make progress. And I think the same is true in the justice sector, that we cannot make progress in creating a more just society, healthier communities, if we allow ourse...
“Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive.” — Marianne Faithful “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.” — Bryan Stevenson “Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order. We have discovered as ...
Jun 24, 2020 · Here are five fabulous social justice quotes and why they matter. “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. – Paulo Freire
Apr 5, 2022 · The concept of responsibility, therefore, connects various crucial dimensions of education: the ethos of the educator; the more or less formal goal of education; and the experience of being responsible for someone who is in some sense dependent on you, but never completely controllable.
