Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Interpretation
The future and well-being of a nation are directly linked to the education of its people.
Benjamin Disraeli emphasizes the critical role that education plays in shaping a nation's destiny. He suggests that the prosperity and progress of a country are fundamentally tied to how well its citizens are educated, indicating that a well-informed populace is vital for a thriving society.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students about their future roles in society.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
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