Alexander Meiklejohn quotes
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“There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.”
-- Alexander MeiklejohnSource : Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.17, Transaction Publishers
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“Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.”
-- Alexander MeiklejohnSource : Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.265, Transaction Publishers
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“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.”
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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