It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
Interpretation
Education is essential for personal and financial success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of learning and gaining knowledge as a foundation for achieving success and prosperity. Unlike the fleeting nature of chaos and destruction, the act of learning is portrayed as a crucial undertaking that leads to lasting rewards and fulfillment in life.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
Imagination grows by exercise.
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.
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