"With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Education, Life, Truth, Regret, Today

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"With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday."

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"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

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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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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more."

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"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

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"Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all."

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Activist

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up."

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"Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another's sex life."

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"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

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"Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina."

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"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

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"We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days - or hours."

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