"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

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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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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"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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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"A well educated human being does not express his or thoughts that can perplex others because he or she has mastered the knowledge to avoid mentioning ideas that are vague, irrelavent and not compelling ."

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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"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!"

"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."

"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."

"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."

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