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"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
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"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."


"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."


"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."


"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."


"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."


"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."


"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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