Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?

Hannah More

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

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Topic

Original sin Human nature

Author

Hannah More

Source

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Vol. 1, London T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799, ch. 2.

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Moral theory
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Friedrich Schiller
Source
The Camp of Wallenstein
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play) Tragedy
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
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Time
1798 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Wallensteins Lager [Wallenstein's Camp]. 12 Oct. 1798, Weimarer Hoftheatre, Weimar, Germany, sc. 6.

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It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology. The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.

James R. Killian

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Space travel Curiosity Human nature
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James R. Killian
Source
Introduction to Outer Space
Medium
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English
Time
1958 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Killian, James R. "Introduction to Outer Space." Project Mercury: Man-in-space Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959. Originally a speech given on 26 Mar. 1958. The White House, Washington, DC, USA.