Paul Popenoe quotes

“The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.”
-- Paul Popenoe

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“Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.”
-- Paul Popenoe

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“The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.”

“The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.”

“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

“Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”

“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

“There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.”

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books