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"In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education."
Education
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
Accomplishment
"How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!"
Food
"For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind."
Happiness
"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."
Income
"It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves."
Skepticism
"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."
People
"One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend."
Friendship
"To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether."
Life
"In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature."
Literature
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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"Experience is a sacred education."
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"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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