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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
"Experience is a sacred education."
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
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"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."
"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."
"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."
"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."
"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with."
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
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