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Letter "R" » reform
«Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
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Educator,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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horizons,
inflame,
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reform,
technician,
technicians,
unsettle,
unsettled,
unsettles,
unsettling,
widen
«Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.»
Author: Susan B. Anthony
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Keywords:
advocates,
avow,
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bring about,
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casting,
cautious,
despised,
earnest,
estimation,
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in earnest,
privately,
publicly,
reform,
Social reform,
standards,
sympathies
«A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.»
«A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Keywords:
educate,
fallacies,
fallacy,
falls,
Fall of Man,
married man,
married woman,
marries,
reform,
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The Fall of Man,
victim
«Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.»
«Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative»
«At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.»
«Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming»
«All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.»
«Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.»