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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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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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"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
Man
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
Being
"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
Hope
"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."
Politics
"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
Politics
"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."
Heart
"An intellectual hatred is the worst."
Politics
"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart."
Love
"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead."
Sex
"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away."
Writing
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