"Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Education, Growth, Learning, Humility, Failure

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"Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return."

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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

Julian Bond, American Activist

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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

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"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."

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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."

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"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"

Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Author

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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education."

Jane Rule, Canadian Author

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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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Charles Handy, Irish Author

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"Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work."

Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer

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"When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf."

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"Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands."

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"First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation."

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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."

"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."

"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."

"The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education."

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

"Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child."

"Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work."

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"Drama don't arrive by surprise, it is subconsciously attracted to fertile grounds."

"Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission."

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"Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands."

"Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt."

"First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation."

"Healing comes by three avenues; what one eats, thinks and celebrates."