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"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"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."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
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