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"Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing."
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"Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts."
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"Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities."
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"Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals."
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
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"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma."
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"And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education."
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."
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"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
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"Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test."
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"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
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"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
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"Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives."
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"Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
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"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."
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"When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."
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"Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track."
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"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
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