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Mehmet Murat ildan

"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

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"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."

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"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

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"Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!"
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"Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!"
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"Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!"
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"Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!"
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"Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!"
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"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!"
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"Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!"
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"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
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"An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!"
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