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"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
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"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."
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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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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."
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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
Companionship
"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."
Knowledge
"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."
Legacy
"We move between two darknesses."
Transition
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization
"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."
Equality
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
Literature
"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."
Fate
"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."
Grief
"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
Artistry
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