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"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."
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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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"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."
Work
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
Action
"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."
Mind
"No man's credit is as good as his money."
Money
"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
History
"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."
Man
"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
Home
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
Goal
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
Imagination
"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
Happiness
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