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"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
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"Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower."
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"The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning."
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"Keep calm and keep learning."
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"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."
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"Education is the best fertilizer for the mind."
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"Experience is a necessary education."
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"Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life."
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"Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy."
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"Begin to learn."
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"Education is the antidote to many poisons."
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"But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better."
Duty
"The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed."
Achievement
"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."
Design
"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."
Family
"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."
History
"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."
Family
"I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student."
Science
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
Government
"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
Education
"I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds."
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