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Maya Angelou

"Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery."

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"Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

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"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."

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"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

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"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
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