John T. Scopes famous quotes

03-23-2025

Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.
-- John T. Scopes

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I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]
-- John T. Scopes

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You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.
-- John T. Scopes

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All I have learned, I learned from books.
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

John T. Scopes famous quotes

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