"You can get all A's and still flunk life."
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
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"Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism."
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"No one can take it away from you."
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"The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference."
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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
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"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
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"An education is the investment with the greatest returns."
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"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
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"A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential."
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"I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."
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"It is through good education that all the good in the world arises."
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"Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous."
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
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"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
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"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
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"The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."
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"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."
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