"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."

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Leo Tolstoy

#School Quotes #Three Quotes #Needed Quotes

“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
“The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educatedâ€”of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.”
“Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.”
“I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.”
“William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.”
“Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.”
“I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.”
“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.”

Source : "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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