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"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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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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"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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"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
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"Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them."
People
"I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me."
Daughter
"I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts."
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"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette."
People
"As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role."
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"Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you."
Smoking
"The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life."
Life
"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."
Cancer
"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
Education
"Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette."
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