"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."
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"The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life."
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"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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"Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life."
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"Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)"
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"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
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"Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration"
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"Education is... doing anything that changes you."
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."
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"The doer alone learneth."
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"A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent."
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"You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen."
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"Man is what he reads."
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"Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them."
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"literacy is at the heart of sustainable development"
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"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
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"Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours."
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"That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image."
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"Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact."
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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
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