"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
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"I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies."
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"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."
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"Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas."
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"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."
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"Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty."
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
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"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
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"In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education."
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"You won't learn if you think you already know everything."
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"You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers."
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"The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies."
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"American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets."
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"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."
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"A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks."
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"Man is never so authentically himself as when at play."
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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"You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love."
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"Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications."
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