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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation."
"Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu."
"Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
"Education is the cornerstone of liberty."
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
"Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three."
"He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
"Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
"The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself."
"We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
"Rhetoric is not important. Actions are."
"There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got, because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners."
"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
