A Quote by James A.C. Brown
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.
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When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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