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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
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"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."
Ability

"Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays."
Time

"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
Childhood

"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
Education

"Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes."
Time

"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up."
Life

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."
Time

"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
Man

"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
Psychoanalysis

"You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought."
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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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Personal Development

"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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"Experience is a sacred education."
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Personal Development

"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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Personal Development

"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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