"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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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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"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 a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

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"Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

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"Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books."

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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."

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"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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