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Gary Becker

"My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education."

Gary Becker, American Economist
Education, Work, Men, Women
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"My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education."

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

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

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist
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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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher
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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author
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Amber Hurdle

"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer
Education, Reading, Time, Literature, Trust
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."

Susan C. Young, American Author
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"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer
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"A well educated human being does not express his or thoughts that can perplex others because he or she has mastered the knowledge to avoid mentioning ideas that are vague, irrelavent and not compelling ."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer
Education, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

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