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"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."
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"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
Truth
"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
Now
"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."
Home
"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
Politics
"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."
Answers
"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
Living
"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
Soul
"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
Life
"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
Truth
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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Personal Development
"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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Personal Development
"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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Personal Development
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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Personal Development
"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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Personal Development
"Experience is a sacred education."
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Personal Development
"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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Personal Development
"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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Personal Development
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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Personal Development
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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