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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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Personal Development
"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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Personal Development
"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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Personal Development
"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
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Personal Development
"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
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Personal Development
"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
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Personal Development
"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
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Personal Development
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
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Personal Development
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
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"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."
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"British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target."
Politics
"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
Computer
"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
People
"I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression."
People
"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
Education
"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
Reassurance
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
Impression
"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
Home
"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
Education
"We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge."
People
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