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"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
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"Study the past if you would define the future."
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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
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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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"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."
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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
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"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."
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"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
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"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."
Education
"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
Job
"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help."
Quality
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
Love
"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
Education
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
Education
"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
Acceptance
"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
Democracy
"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
Choice
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
Education
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