Leo Strauss Quotes
Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won't do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit people against each other.
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I think style is both something that you have naturally and something you need to study. The most important thing is to find your personal style, your personal difference and choose things that suit you best and bring out your personal attributes.
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Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
