We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
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