"All education must be self-education."
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"Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy."
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"Self-education only produces expressions of self."
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"(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors."
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"A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness."
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"There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken."
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"Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life."
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"The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country."
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"There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn."
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"So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain."
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"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."
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"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."
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"Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching."
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"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs."
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"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]"
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""What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?""
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"The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight."
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"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
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"Those who trust us educate us."
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"The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed."
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