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"I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting."
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
"No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you."
"I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'"
"We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education."
"I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class."
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."
"Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."
"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."
"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."
"Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."
"The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow."
"Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp"
"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century."
"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?"