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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
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"Knowledge is true opinion."
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"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
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"A library is a hospital for the mind."
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"Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?''What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?''For my education, Holmes.''Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."
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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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"I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one."
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"Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let's just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams."
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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Art
"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."
Work
"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
World
"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment."
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"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
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"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
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"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
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"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
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