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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"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."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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"I believe that each of our lives has a purpose. You have something to do that is unique to you."
"Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter."
"The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream."
"I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action."
"Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people."
"The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you."
"Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it."
"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."
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