"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
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"If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all."
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"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
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"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
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"When one teaches, two learn."
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"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
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"If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'"
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"Education is our passport to the future."
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"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."
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"Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today."
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"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you."
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"Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read."
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"Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it."
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"Don't set your wit against a child."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!"
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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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"The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic."
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"We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare."
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