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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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Personal Development
"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."
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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
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Personal Development
"Always educate yourself regardless of how old you are."
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"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."
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"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"
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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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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
African
"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."
Fear
"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money."
Business
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
People
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
Change
"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
Music
"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."
Education
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
Music
"I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy."
Day
"If I could read it, I could play it."
Play
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