“Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.”
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
“The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”