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"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."
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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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"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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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
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"Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men."
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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
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"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Psychology
"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
Time
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation
"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."
Self
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Poetry
"When in doubt do it."
Action
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