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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
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"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."
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"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."
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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"Full effort is full victory."
Success
"It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified."
Attitude
"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will."
Strength
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
Wisdom
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
Spiritual
"My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."
Faith
"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words."
Action
"Peace is its own reward."
Peace
"Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."
Wisdom
"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."
Love
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