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"Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice."
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"Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all."
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"I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well."
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"Education is a human right with immense power to transform"
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"On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all."
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"The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more."
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"When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect."
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"In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world."
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"Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors."
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"All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me."
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"Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless."
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"There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning."
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"All I have learned, I learned from books."
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"When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity."
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"Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything."
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"A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine."
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"I got an early education from television."
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"I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain."
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"The proper man understands equity, the small man profits."
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