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"Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up."
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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."
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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."
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"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head."
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"All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step."
Religion
"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
Government
"There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list."
Awareness
"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope."
Cows
"If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free."
Health
"Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment."
Health
"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
College
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."
Politics
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible."
Woman
"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
Will
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