“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ”
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Introduction.
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (1985)
“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”
Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 26
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Context: In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life: understood, of course, in its wide Darwinian sense — not as a struggle for the sheer means of existence, but as a struggle against all natural conditions unfavourable to the species. The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. The mutual protection which is obtained in this case, the possibility of attaining old age and of accumulating experience, the higher intellectual development, and the further growth of sociable habits, secure the maintenance of the species, its extension, and its further progressive evolution. The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.
“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
Attributed
“The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
" The Round River: A Parable http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile.p0655&id=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile&isize=XL" (c. 1940-48); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 165.
1940s
“No matter how I struggle and strive,
I'll never get out of this world alive.”
"I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" (1952)
Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single "The Blinding".
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