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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

—C. S. Lewis
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

—Christopher Hitchens
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

—Mahatma Gandhi
It seems we are indoctrinated from a very young age to accept what we are taught as 'important', our academic marks as a reflection of our 'intelligence', and that our lives will be of lesser quality if we don't achieve in this system.

—Micheal Tyers
Raise your children better, or I'll raise them for you.

—Marilyn Manson
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

—Anthony de Mello
There should be open competition for all men; and the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of offspring. Important as the struggle for existence has been and even still is, yet as far as the highest part of man's nature is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, &c., than through natural selection; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts, which afforded the basis for the development of the moral sense.

—Charles Darwin
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave them alone and teach them to read. The rest is brainwashing.

—Ellen Gilcrist
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

—Thomas Sowell (03/09/2007)
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. As soon as the public mind shall be sufficiently prepared to receive it, the practical detail of this system shall be fully developed. For the extensive knowledge of the facts which present themselves on the globe, makes it evident to those whose reasoning faculties have not been entirely paralysed, that all mankind firmly believe, that everybody except themselves has been grievously deceived in his fundamental principles; and feel the utmost astonishment that the nations of the world could embrace such gross inconsistencies for divine or political truths.

—Robert Owen (1813)
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

—Emma Goldman
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

—Aldous Huxley (1962)
Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

—Jack Handey
I am, therefore I'll think.

—Ayn Rand
If you have to hoodwink your children to ensure that they confirm their faith when they are adults, your faith ought to go extinct.

—Daniel C. Dennett (2006)
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

—Rene Descartes
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. Unless we are willing to expose religious irrationality whenever it arises, we will encourage irrational public policy and promote ignorance over education for our children.

—Lawrence M. Krauss (08/2010)
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

—Thomas Jefferson
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian -- like a doctor of divinity.

—Robert G. Ingersoll
Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim.

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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