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"The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected."
"I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive."
"The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information."
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti."
"Education is the process of selling someone on books."
"I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks."
"Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready."
"One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
"Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living."
"Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long."
"The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side.""
"To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men."
"Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius."
"In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering."
"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."
"So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework."
"No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden."
"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."
"Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare."
