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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.
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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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