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George Bernard Shaw

"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."

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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."

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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

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"Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books."

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"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

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"Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!"

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"A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!"

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"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."

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