"I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage."
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"There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school."
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"There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?"
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"To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather."
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"A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late."
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"Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake."
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"For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going."
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"The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser."
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"Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]"
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"The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live."
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"Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history"
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"I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes."
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"I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement."
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"Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men."
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"To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity."
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"Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless."
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"In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior."
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"It is no easy task to be good."
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"How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home."
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"In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do."
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