"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."
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"If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided."
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"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
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"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
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"Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us."
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"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
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"Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself."
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"A good education is another name for happiness."
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"Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance."
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"If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life."
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"Let people have an education and you can't stop them."
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
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"The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
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"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
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"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."
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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
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"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
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"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education."
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