"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities."
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"Great minds think for themselves."
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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
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"And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers."
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"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
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"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."
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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
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"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
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"Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one."
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"I'm not a teacher, but an awakener."
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"Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity."
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"you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
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"The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."
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