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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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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."
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"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."
"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."
"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."
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