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"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
Education
"Style is the image of character."
Character
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
Self-Education
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
Freedom
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
Hope
"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."
People
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
Government
"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
Emotional
"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
Literature
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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Personal Development
"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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Personal Development
"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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Personal Development
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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Personal Development
"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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Personal Development
"Experience is a sacred education."
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Personal Development
"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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Personal Development
"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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Personal Development
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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Personal Development
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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Personal Development
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