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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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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."
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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
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"Study the past if you would define the future."
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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
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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."
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"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."
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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."
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"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."
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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
Education
"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
Truth
"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
Death
"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."
Enthusiasm
"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
Power
"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
Death
"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."
Anger
"Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them."
God
"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
Science
"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
Ignorance
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