"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."
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"The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State."
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"The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included."
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"Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you."
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"I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma."
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"Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest."
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"When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it."
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"While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend."
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"They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score."
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"Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me."
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"If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought."
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"Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education."
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"In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers."
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"Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute."
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"Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing."
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"Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs."
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"It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work."
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"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."
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"Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides."
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"Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others."
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