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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
Journalist
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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
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All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there do that read write rise lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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