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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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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
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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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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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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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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 our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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