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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."

"Experience is a sacred education."

"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."

"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
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"Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole."

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice."

"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

"An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can."
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