Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Monday, April 30, 2012 – W. E. B. Du Bois
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Monday, April 30, 2012 – W. E. B. Du Bois
“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
And
“I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”
And
“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
And
“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
And
“The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.”
And
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
And
“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”
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“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
And
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
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“It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.”
And
“Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.”
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