"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

John Green, American Author

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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Reform, Change, Weather

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

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"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."

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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"Study the past if you would define the future."

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

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"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."

"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."

"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."

"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much."

"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."

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