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David McCullough

"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities."

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"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities."

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Amber Hurdle

"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!"

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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."

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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."

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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

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Amber Hurdle

"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."

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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"

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"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."

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"Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own."

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"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
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"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
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"May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
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"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
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"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
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"I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research."
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"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."
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"The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?"
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"When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair."
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