"You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail."
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"You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers."
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"Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?"
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"Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast."
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"A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul."
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"Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children."
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"By spiritual training I mean education of the heart."
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"All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given."
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"In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop."
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"The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man."
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"Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated."
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"Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning."
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"Literacy in itself is no education."
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"Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest."
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"Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India."
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"Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good."
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"I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry."
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"You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities."
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"A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds."
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"To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct."
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