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Brandon Sanderson

"Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life."

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"Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life."

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

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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

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Amber Hurdle

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

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Amber Hurdle

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

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