"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
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"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
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"Only the educated are free."
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
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"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
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"My future is righteousness."
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"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."
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"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
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"It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing."
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"Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens."
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"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
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"In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite."
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"Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging."
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"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
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"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
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"Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate."
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"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."
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"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."
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