"Education is not received. It is achieved."
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"Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education."
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"Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education."
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"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."
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"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it."
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"Education is cheap; experience is expensive."
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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice."
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"The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all."
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"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"
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"Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see."
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."
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"I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college."
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"There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience."
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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."
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"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create."
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"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."
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"To perceive is to suffer."
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