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.
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.
From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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