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      • “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” --Thomas Jefferson “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” --Thomas Jefferson
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  2. Jul 2, 2010 · For your inspiration as you head into a weekend of grilling and fireworks - some words of wisdom on education from our founding fathers: "Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice.

    • Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
    • It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
    • No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
    • The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
    • “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X.
    • “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.
  3. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation. John F. Kennedy. Education, Dream, Teacher. 43 Copy quote.

  4. The Aim of Civic Education – Contemporary Sources. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” --John F. Kennedy. “We may now define in a more precise manner the aim of education.

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  5. Sep 22, 2020 · Adams was explicit: the education of “every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest” had “to be the care of the public” and “maintained at the public expense.” Its...

  6. With that thought in mind, we commemorate ECPI University’s 50 th anniversary with 50 quotes from some of the world’s greatest minds, each dedicated to the timeless belief that education and perpetual learning should always be humankind’s foremost pursuit.

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