"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
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"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything."
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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."
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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
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"The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood."
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"Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition."
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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
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"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
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"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
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"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
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"I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt."
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"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
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"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
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"Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use."
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"The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda."
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