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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in."
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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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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Diplomacy

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
Positive

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
Aging

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."
Motivation

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Persistence

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
Innovation

"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Social

"God must love the common man, he made so many of them."
Love

"If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him."
Psychology
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