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James A. Baldwin

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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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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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

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"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."

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Akiroq Brost

"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."

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

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

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"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."

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"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."

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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
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"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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