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Dave Van Ronk

"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

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"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."

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Amber Hurdle

"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

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Amber Hurdle

"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."

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Amber Hurdle

"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."

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Amber Hurdle

"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

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Amber Hurdle

"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

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Amber Hurdle

"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."

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Amber Hurdle

"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"

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Dave Van Ronk
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."

Work

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Dave Van Ronk
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."

Living

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Dave Van Ronk
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."

Time

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Dave Van Ronk
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."

Truth

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Dave Van Ronk
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."

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Dave Van Ronk
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."

Jazz

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Dave Van Ronk
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

Country

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Dave Van Ronk
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."

Family

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Dave Van Ronk
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."

Time

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Dave Van Ronk
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."

Classroom

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