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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!"
"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."
"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."
"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Kofi Annan
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."
"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being."
"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."
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