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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
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"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."


"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."


"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."


"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."


"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."


"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."


"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
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