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"School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
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"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
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"Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?"
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"People should train their brain by watching films, by listening music, by playing games, by reading quotes. If people do this, I can said from this a big percent from here you can become clever."
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"Even the names of the books gave me food for thought."
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"Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment."
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"Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge."
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"Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge."
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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."
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"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."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
Evolution
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
Democracy
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
Conflict
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Politics
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Reflection
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Democracy
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
Religion
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