"To educate a man in mind and..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”
“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
“The object of government is the welfare of the people.”
More on Education
“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”
More on Morality
“Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence”
“A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry”
“[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.”