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Minoru Yamasaki

"The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus."

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"The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus."

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Akiroq Brost

"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

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"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

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"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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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

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"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

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"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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"Segregation shaped me education liberated me."

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"And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture."
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"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."
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"I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation."
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"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."
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"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."
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"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."
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"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
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"The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness."
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"Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway."
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"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building."
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