"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets"
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"Freedom can occur only through education."
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
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"The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness."
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"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
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"Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable."
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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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"We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things."
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"There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine."
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"If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties."
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"Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us."
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"Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?"
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"These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation."
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"If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them."
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"Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality."
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"Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people."
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
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"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."
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"Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful."
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"The only real education comes from what goes counter to you."
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