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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"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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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
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Personal Development
"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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Personal Development
"They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes"."
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"None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves."
Man
"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
Business
"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
Power
"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail."
Truth
"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."
Man
"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
Body
"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."
Design
"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
Wisdom
"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
Wisdom
"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."
Education
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