"Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible."

-- Hermann Oberth

#Strong Quotes #Educational Quotes #Past Quotes

“To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.”
“My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.”
“People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.”
“We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity â€¦ by actually talking with them.”
“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”
“Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.”
“We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.”

Source : Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”
“When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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