"The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education."
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
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"When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble."
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"Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you."
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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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"The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about."
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"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
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"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
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"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
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"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples."
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"They know enough who know how to learn."
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"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
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"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
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"He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear."
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"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
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"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
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"A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
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"An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer"
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"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."
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"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
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