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"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
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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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"Knowledge is true opinion."
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"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
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"A library is a hospital for the mind."
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"Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?''What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?''For my education, Holmes.''Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."
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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."
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"I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one."
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"Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let's just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams."
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"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones."
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"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
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"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try."
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"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress."
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"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
People
"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
People
"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
Failure
"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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