"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
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"Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom."
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
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"Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling."
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
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"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward."
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"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
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"Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education."
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"The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves."
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"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
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"The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time."
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"There is no education like adversity."
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"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
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"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
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"Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin."
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