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"I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938."
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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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"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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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
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"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
College
"Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University."
War
"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent."
Science
"My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director."
Friendship
"I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938."
Education
"And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists."
Science
"A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens."
Work
"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."
Education
"My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938."
Education
"After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958."
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