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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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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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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."
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"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
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"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."
Judgment
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
Liberty
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
Power
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."
Life
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
Power
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
Appearance
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."
Virtue
"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered."
Thought
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
Circumstance
"The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly."
Society
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