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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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Personal Development
"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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Personal Development
"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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Personal Development
"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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Personal Development
"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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Personal Development
"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
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Personal Development
"The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries. In my the minds of my RAF hearers this perspective simply did not exist. It seemed to me that they did not really believe that we have any reliable knowledge of historic man. But this was often curiously combined with a conviction that we knew a great deal about Prehistoric Man: doubtless because Prehistoric Man is labelled "Science" (which is reliable) whereas Napoleon or Julius Caesar is labelled as "History" (which is not."
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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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"Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men."
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"If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated."
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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"
Philosophy
"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."
Society
"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."
Wisdom
"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
Time
"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
Family
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
History
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
People
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
Science
"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory."
Time
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
Art
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