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The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.


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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.



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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.



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