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"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
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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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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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"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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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it."
Money
"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
Money
"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
Power
"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something."
Time
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
Time
"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
Help
"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
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