"Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."
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"[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.""
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
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"To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries."
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"And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated."
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"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society."
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"I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves"
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"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
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"Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries."
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"It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education."
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"The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions."
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"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."
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"What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection."
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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"Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined."
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"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
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"All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five."
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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
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"School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity."
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