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"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
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"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"Knowledge is curiosity to know more."
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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
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"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."
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"The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is 'doing' his 'English prep' and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all."
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"There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems."
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"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."
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"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."
Criticism
"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."
People
"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
Patience
"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
Growth
"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
Knowledge
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
Experience
"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."
Change
"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."
God
"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."
Education
"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
Education
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