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It is not the result of scientific research that ennobles humans and enriches their nature, but the struggle to understand while performing creative and openminded intellectual work.

Albert Einstein · From Good and Evil, 1933.

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The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein · From his address on education at Albany, 15 October 1936.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in all other matters, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Albert Einstein · From his message for the Gandhi memorial service, 11 February 1948.

All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual toward freedom.

Albert Einstein · The opening of Moral Decay, a message to the YMCA, 11 October 1937.

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Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon the human story with all its sadness, with all its unquenchable hope.

Winston Churchill · Churchill at the University of Copenhagen in 1950, on what education is for.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

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