"In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people."
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"Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life."
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"Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street."
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"To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject."
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"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."
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"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action."
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
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"People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace."
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"Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government."
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"I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves."
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"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."
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"There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners."
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"The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one."
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"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
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"Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion."
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"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
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