Sergio Leone Quotes

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

As a body they are ignorant and wicked. Without schools, without teachers, without ministers—what will become of them?

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Do not underestimate the importance of Islam on the continent of Africa.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

I acknowledge freely the great power of education and social influences in developing the active powers of the mind, just as I acknowledge the effect of use in developing the muscles of the blacksmith’s arm, and no further. Let the blacksmith labour as he will, he will find that there are certain feats beyond his power that are well within the strength of a man of herculean make, even although the latter may have led a sedentary life..

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and talking to me about different philosophers and different ways of life.

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.