"All of life is a constant education."
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"Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs"
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"Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things."
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"Supposing is good, but finding out is better."
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"The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge."
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"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
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"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes."
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"We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading."
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"For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing."
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"It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book."
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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
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"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma."
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"And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education."
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"I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there."
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"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
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"... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge."
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"When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."
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"Never hesitate to ask a lesser person."
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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
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"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."
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