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"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
"Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we're reading about, while reading about them. That's why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author's intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves."
"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."
"Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing."
"Eradicating ignorance through the establishment of information centers."
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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
"I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now."
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time."
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
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