Carl Henry Eckart Quotes

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

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..

Every child needs to become literate in one or more languages, and every child should become comfortable in the major scholarly disciplines - historical, scientific, mathematical, and artistic-humanistic thinking. Beyond that, I am not in favour of a uniform system. I think there should be some choices.

Different players have different characteristics.

A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.

School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don't see color, I don't see race.

It takes all sorts of people to make the world.

We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live.

Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

So many humans. So many colors.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.