"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

John Green, American Author

Education, Libraries, Children, Ambition, Service

"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Reform, Change, Weather

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Education, Learning, Law, Struggle, Persistence

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

Education, Study, Sincerity, Learning, Importance

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Education, Work, Living

"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Education, Books, Reading, Influence, Knowledge

"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Education, Learning, Manners, Society

"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Education, Money, Values, Learning

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

"Study the past if you would define the future."

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."

"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."

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"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out."

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

"A little man often cast a long shadow."

"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."