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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

"Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we're reading about, while reading about them. That's why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author's intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves."

"Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing."

"Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement."

"Literature is life."

"The principal goal of education in schools is to teach students basic knowledge and kindle mindsets that know how to think better and to understand the world in which they live."
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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."


"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."


"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."


"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."


"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."


"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
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