"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
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"Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well."
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"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education."
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"When the student is ready the teacher will appear."
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"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
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"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room."
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"All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well."
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"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all."
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"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
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"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
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"From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."
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"I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn."
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