"I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son."
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"The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?"
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"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time."
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"The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible."
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses."
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"Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart."
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"It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things."
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"In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint."
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"Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence."
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"Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature."
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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
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"There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks."
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"no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government."
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"Men learn while they teach."
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"Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask."
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"We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices."
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"The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies."
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"There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!"
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"I am not a teacher. I am an awakener."
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"All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas."
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